Genesis 10:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.

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  • Gen 10:20 : 20 All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.
  • Jer 2:10 : 10 For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see; send to Kedar and give deep thought to it; and see if there has ever been such a thing.
  • Jer 25:22 : 22 And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the lands across the sea;
  • Zeph 2:11 : 11 The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.
  • Gen 10:25 : 25 And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.
  • Gen 11:1-9 : 1 And all the earth had one language and one tongue. 2 And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place. 3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth. 4 And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building. 6 And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs. 7 Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another. 8 So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town. 9 So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.
  • Ps 72:10 : 10 Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands come back with offerings; let the kings of Sheba and Seba give of their stores.
  • Isa 24:15 : 15 Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.
  • Isa 40:15 : 15 See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.
  • Isa 41:5 : 5 The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near.
  • Isa 42:4 : 4 His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.
  • Isa 42:10 : 10 Make a new song to the Lord, and let his praise be sounded from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and everything in it, the sea-lands and their people.
  • Isa 49:1 : 1 Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:
  • Isa 51:5 : 5 Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation will be shining out like the light; the sea-lands will be waiting for me, and they will put their hope in my strong arm.
  • Isa 59:18 : 18 He will give them the right reward of their doings, wrath to his attackers, punishment to his haters, and even on the sea-lands he will send punishment.
  • Isa 60:9 : 9 Vessels of the sea-lands are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, so that your sons may come from far, and their silver and gold with them, to the place of the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.

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    29 And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

    30 And their country was from Mesha, in the direction of Sephar, the mountain of the east.

    31 These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.

    32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.

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    18 And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions;

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    20 All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.

    21 And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.

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    1 And all the earth had one language and one tongue.

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    7 And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.

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    6 And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

    7 Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.

    8 So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.

    9 So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

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    8 When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.

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    19 And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days a division was made of the earth; and his brother's name was Joktan.

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    26 And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

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    11 No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:

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    27 May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.