Genesis 10:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

By these were the islands of the Gentiles divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

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  • Gen 10:20 : 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their countries, and in their nations.
  • Jer 2:10 : 10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.
  • Jer 25:22 : 22 And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea,
  • Zeph 2:11 : 11 The LORD will be awesome to them: for he will starve all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the nations.
  • Gen 10:25 : 25 And to Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
  • Gen 11:1-9 : 1 And the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2 And it happened, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and lived there. 3 And they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and tar they had for mortar. 4 And they said, Come, let us build a city and a tower whose top may reach to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth. 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people are one, and they all have one language; and this is what they begin to do: now nothing will be withheld from them which they have planned to do. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because the LORD confused the language of all the earth there, and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
  • Ps 72:10 : 10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
  • Isa 24:15 : 15 Therefore glorify the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
  • Isa 40:15 : 15 Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the islands as a very little thing.
  • Isa 41:5 : 5 The islands saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
  • Isa 42:4 : 4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he has set justice in the earth: and the islands shall wait for his law.
  • Isa 42:10 : 10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you that go down to the sea, and all that is in it; the islands, and their inhabitants.
  • Isa 49:1 : 1 Listen to me, O islands; and hear me, you people from afar; The LORD has called me from the womb; from my mother's body he has made mention of my name.
  • Isa 51:5 : 5 My righteousness is near; my salvation has gone forth, and my arms will judge the people; the islands will wait upon me, and on my arm they will trust.
  • Isa 59:18 : 18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the coastlands he will repay recompense.
  • Isa 60:9 : 9 Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the LORD your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you.

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  • Gen 10:29-32
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    85%

    29And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

    30And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go unto Sephar, a mountain of the east.

    31These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.

    32These 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.

  • Gen 10:18-22
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    18And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterward the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

    19And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go to Gerar, unto Gaza; as you go, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

    20These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their countries, and in their nations.

    21Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

    22The children of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

  • Gen 10:1-4
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    1Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and unto them were sons born after the flood.

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

    3And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

    4And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

  • Gen 11:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1And the whole earth had one language and one speech.

    2And it happened, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and lived there.

  • Gen 10:6
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    6And the sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan.

  • 1 Chr 1:7-8
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    7And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

    8The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

  • 1 Chr 1:5
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    5The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

  • Gen 11:6-9
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    71%

    6And the LORD said, Behold, the people are one, and they all have one language; and this is what they begin to do: now nothing will be withheld from them which they have planned to do.

    7Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

    8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

    9Therefore its name is called Babel, because the LORD confused the language of all the earth there, and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

  • Gen 10:25-26
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    71%

    25And to Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

    26And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

  • Deut 32:8
    71%

    8When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the boundaries of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 1:19
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    19And to Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

  • Acts 17:26
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    26And has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings;

  • Acts 2:6
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    6When this sound occurred, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

  • Acts 2:8
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    8How is it that we hear each in our own language in which we were born?

  • 1 Chr 1:23
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    23Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

  • Gen 9:19
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    19These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

  • Ps 78:55
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    55He cast out the nations also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

  • Isa 28:11
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    11For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

  • Gen 9:27
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    27May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.