Genesis 10:5

World English Bible (2000)

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

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 10:20 : 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
  • Jer 2:10 : 10 For pass over to the islands of Kittim, 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 isle which is beyond the sea;
  • Zeph 2:11 : 11 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.
  • Gen 10:25 : 25 To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.
  • Gen 11:1-9 : 1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 2 It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there. 3 They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. 4 They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth." 5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. 6 Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. 7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." 8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
  • Ps 72:10 : 10 The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
  • Isa 24:15 : 15 Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!
  • Isa 40:15 : 15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
  • Isa 41:5 : 5 The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come.
  • Isa 42:4 : 4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law."
  • Isa 42:10 : 10 Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.
  • Isa 49:1 : 1 Listen, islands, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name:
  • Isa 51:5 : 5 My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for me, and on my arm shall they trust.
  • Isa 59:18 : 18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
  • Isa 60:9 : 9 Surely the islands shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gen 10:29-32
    4 verses
    85%

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

    30Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the 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. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

  • Gen 10:18-22
    5 verses
    82%

    18the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.

    19The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

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

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

    22The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

  • Gen 10:1-4
    4 verses
    77%

    1Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

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

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

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

  • Gen 11:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

    2It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

  • Gen 10:6
    73%

    6The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

  • 1 Chr 1:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • 1 Chr 1:5
    71%

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

  • Gen 11:6-9
    4 verses
    71%

    6Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

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

    8So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

    9Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

  • Gen 10:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.

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

  • Deut 32:8
    71%

    8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 1:19
    70%

    19To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

  • Acts 17:26
    68%

    26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

  • Acts 2:6
    68%

    6When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.

  • Acts 2:8
    67%

    8How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?

  • 1 Chr 1:23
    67%

    23and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

  • Gen 9:19
    66%

    19These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.

  • Ps 78:55
    66%

    55He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

  • Isa 28:11
    66%

    11But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;

  • Gen 9:27
    66%

    27May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant."