Bible verse

Genesis 10:5

From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.

Genesis 10:5 · BSB

Genesis 10:5 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 10.

1 This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.

2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

5 From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.

6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

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Genesis 10:5 in other translations

KJV

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

ASV

Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

ERV

Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue; after their families, in their nations.

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