Genesis 10:1

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.”

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BSBPD

“This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, namely, of Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And these <FI>are<Fi> births of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and born to them are sons after the deluge.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 10:1 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 2:4This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.
  2. Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
  3. Genesis 5:32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
  4. Genesis 6:9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
  5. Genesis 9:1And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
  6. Genesis 9:7But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
  7. Genesis 9:19These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
  8. 1 Chronicles 1:1Adam, Seth, Enosh,
  9. 1 Chronicles 1:4The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
  10. Matthew 1:1This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:

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