April 5, 2024
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Reading along with us in Genesis? Here’s today’s reading:
Genesis 10 (NIV)
The Table of Nations
1 This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.
The Japhethites
2 The sons of Japheth:
Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.……Continue Reading
God told Noah to multiply after the flood, and this chapter shows just how they did that. Humanity and life went on and stretched out eventually across the world. This chapter is interesting to hear the people and places that we will later see become so significant in God’s plans and which sons of Noah those places can be traced back to.
Genesis 10
Fun with genealogy, I love it! Keeping a perspective of generations that passed, Enoch was the seventh from Adam, and Noah the tenth.
Abram is the 21st generation. You will need 1,048, 576 grandparents at the same generation. (Take one, doubled to the 21st time, binary count). So, just from Adam to Abram, over a million parents. -gy
Kelly, quite true. From these three sons, we have the nation’s today. If we take care to remember the names of Noah’s descendants, we can see links to nations in Scripture. Exodus 13:3 links a son of Noah to Egypt.
Shem, Ham, Japtheth, all men under the curse, with the capacity to worship -or fall from- God, all in Adam who will die. We would do well to lead our fellow strangers and sojounrers on earth to the Second Adam, in whom all shall live. Grace & peace -gy
Genesis 10
Genesis 10
Genesis 10
Always fascinating to me to imagine just how all these families grew and just where they went and how long it took. Humankind fills the earth just as God intended, but one imagines that regard and trust in God is not very strong as we see what happens in the next chapter…