Genesis 10:31
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Genesis 10:31 in other translations
| BSB | These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations. |
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| WEB | These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations. |
| ASV | These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. |
| YLT | These are sons of Shem, by their families, by their tongues, in their lands, by their nations. |
| DARBY | These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. |
| BBE | These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem. |
| Webster | These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. |
What does Genesis 10:31 mean?
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 10:31 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 10:31
- Genesis 10:5
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
- Genesis 10:20
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
- Acts 17:26
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
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Context
- Genesis 10:30
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
- Genesis 10:31
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
- Genesis 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Genesis 10:31 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Estos fueron los hijos de Sem 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 Sem selon leurs familles, selon leurs langues, dans leurs pays, selon leurs nations. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Das sind die Söhne Sems nach ihren Familien, nach ihren Sprachen, in ihren Ländern, nach ihren Nationen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Isti filii Sem secundum cognationes, et linguas, et regiones in gentibus suis. |