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The Genesis flood narrative tells how Noah and his three sons (Shem, Ham, and Japheth), together with their wives, were saved from the Deluge to repopulate the Earth. Shem's descendants: Genesis chapter 10 verses 21–30 gives one list of descendants of Shem.
Adam's lineage in Genesis contains two branches: Chapter 4 giving the descendants of Cain, and Chapter 5 that for Seth that is then continued in later chapters. Chapter 10 gives the Generations of Noah (also called the Table of Nations) that records the populating of the Earth by Noah's descendants, and is not strictly a genealogy but an ...
Within the book of Genesis, the Table of Nations is an extensive list of descendants of Noah, which appears within the Torah at Genesis 10, representing an ethnology from an Iron Age Levantine perspective and its reflections in the medieval and modern history and genealogy researches. [citation needed]
genesis 10 An extensive list of descendants of Noah, known as the Table of Nations , begins by listing Noah's immediate children: Ham, Shem, Japheth. It then proceeds to detail their descendants.
Geographic identifications for the Sons of Noah (Flavius Josephus, c. 100 AD); Ham's sons are in blue.Ham [a] (in Hebrew: חָם), according to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis, was the second son of Noah [1] and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan.
Aram (Hebrew: אֲרָם Aram) is a son of Shem, according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 of the Hebrew Bible, and the father of Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash or Meshech. [1] The Book of Chronicles lists Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech as descendants of Shem, although without stating explicitly that Aram is the father of the other four. [2]
Locations of Canaan's descendants. According to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 (verses 15–19), Canaan was the ancestor of the tribes who originally occupied the ancient Land of Canaan: all the territory from Sidon or Hamath in the north to Gaza in the southwest and Lasha in the southeast.
In the genealogies of the Hebrew Bible, Ashkenaz (Hebrew: אַשְׁכְּנַז, ’Aškənaz; Greek: Ἀσχανάζ, romanized: Askhanáz) was a descendant of Noah.He was the first son of Gomer and brother of Riphath and Togarmah (Genesis 10:3, 1 Chronicles 1:6), with Gomer being the grandson of Noah through Japheth.