Genesis 10:20
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
Genesis 10:20 in other translations
| BSB | These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations. |
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| WEB | These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations. |
| ASV | These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations. |
| YLT | These are sons of Ham, by their families, by their tongues, in their lands, in their nations. |
| DARBY | These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations. |
| BBE | All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham. |
| Webster | These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. |
What does Genesis 10:20 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 10:15-32
The posterity of Canaan were numerous, rich, and pleasantly seated; yet Canaan was under a Divine curse, and not a curse causeless. Those that are under the curse of God, may, perhaps, thrive and prosper in this world; for we cannot know love or hatred, the blessing or the curse, by what is before us, but by what is within us. The curse of God always works really, and always terribly. Perhaps it is a secret curse, a…
Genesis 10:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 10:20
- Genesis 10:6
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
- Genesis 11:1-9
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. …
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Context
- Genesis 10:19
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
- Genesis 10:20
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
- Genesis 10:21
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
Genesis 10:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Estos son los hijos de Châm por sus familias, por sus lenguas, en sus tierras, en sus naciones. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | – Ce sont là les fils de Cham, selon leurs familles, selon leurs langues, dans leurs pays, dans leurs nations. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Das sind die Söhne Hams nach ihren Familien, nach ihren Sprachen, in ihren Ländern, in ihren Nationen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Hi sunt filii Cham in cognationibus, et linguis, et generationibus, terrisque et gentibus suis. |