Genesis 10:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.

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  • Gen 10:20 : 20 These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.
  • Jer 2:10 : 10 Go west across the sea to the coasts of Cyprus and see. Send someone east to Kedar and have them look carefully. See if such a thing as this has ever happened:
  • Jer 25:22 : 22 all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon; all the kings of the coastlands along the sea;
  • Zeph 2:11 : 11 The LORD will terrify them, for he will weaken all the gods of the earth. All the distant nations will worship the LORD in their own lands.
  • Gen 10:25 : 25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.
  • Gen 11:1-9 : 1 The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary. 2 When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3 Then they said to one another,“Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”(They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.) 4 Then they said,“Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.” 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building. 6 And the LORD said,“If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them. 7 Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.” 8 So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why its name was called Babel– because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth.
  • Ps 72:10 : 10 The kings of Tarshish and the coastlands will offer gifts; the kings of Sheba and Seba will bring tribute.
  • Isa 24:15 : 15 So in the east extol the LORD, along the seacoasts extol the fame of the LORD God of Israel.
  • Isa 40:15 : 15 Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales. He lifts the coastlands as if they were dust.
  • Isa 41:5 : 5 The coastlands see and are afraid; the whole earth trembles; they approach and come.
  • Isa 42:4 : 4 He will not grow dim or be crushed before establishing justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait in anticipation for his decrees.”
  • Isa 42:10 : 10 Sing to the LORD a brand new song! Praise him from the horizon of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it, you coastlands and those who live there!
  • Isa 49:1 : 1 Ideal Israel Delivers the Exiles Listen to me, you coastlands! Pay attention, you people who live far away! The LORD summoned me from birth; he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world.
  • Isa 51:5 : 5 I am ready to vindicate, I am ready to deliver, I will establish justice among the nations. The coastlands wait patiently for me; they wait in anticipation for the revelation of my power.
  • Isa 59:18 : 18 He repays them for what they have done, dispensing angry judgment to his adversaries and punishing his enemies. He repays the coastlands.
  • Isa 60:9 : 9 Indeed, the coastlands look eagerly for me, the large ships are in the lead, bringing your sons from far away, along with their silver and gold, to honor the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has bestowed honor on you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 10:29-32
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    29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

    30Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern hills.

    31These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.

    32These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.

  • Gen 10:18-22
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    18Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. Eventually the families of the Canaanites were scattered

    19and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon all the way to Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

    20These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.

    21And sons were also born to Shem(the older brother of Japheth), the father of all the sons of Eber.

    22The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

  • Gen 10:1-4
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    1The Table of Nations This is the account of Noah’s sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

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

    3The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

    4The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim, and the Dodanim.

  • Gen 11:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

    2When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

  • Gen 10:6
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    6The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

  • 1 Chr 1:7-8
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    7The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

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

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

  • Gen 11:6-9
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    6And the LORD said,“If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.

    7Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

    8So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

    9That is why its name was called Babel– because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

  • Gen 10:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

    26Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

  • Deut 32:8
    71%

    8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.

  • 1 Chr 1:19
    70%

    19Two sons were born to Eber: the first was named Peleg, for during his lifetime the earth was divided; his brother’s name was Joktan.

  • Acts 17:26
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    26From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

  • Acts 2:6
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    6When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

  • Acts 2:8
    67%

    8And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?

  • 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 were the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

  • Ps 78:55
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    55He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.

  • Isa 28:11
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    11For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

  • Gen 9:27
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    27May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth!”