Genesis 10:20

These are the sonnes of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
- American Standard Version (1901)

All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.
- Basic English Bible

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
- Darby Bible

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
- Webster's Bible

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
- World English Bible

These [are] sons of Ham, by their families, by their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
- Youngs Literal Bible

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Wesley's Notes for Genesis 10:20

10:21 Two things especially are observable in this account of the posterity of Shem. The description of Shem, #Ge 10:21|, we have not only his name, Shem, which signifies a name; but two titles to distinguish him by. He was the father of all the children of Eber. Eber was his great grandson, but why should he be called the father of all his children, rather than of all Arphaxad's or Salah's? Probably because Abraham and his seed, not only descended from Heber, but from him were called Hebrews. Eber himself, we may suppose, was a man eminent for religion in a time of general apostasy; and the holy tongue being commonly called from him the Hebrew, it is probable he retained it in his family in the confusion of Babel, as a special token of God's favour to him. He was the brother of Japheth the elder; by which it appears, that though Shem be commonly put first, yet he was not Noah's first - born, but Japheth was elder. But why should this also be put as part of Shem's description, that he was the brother of Japheth, since that had been said before? Probably this is intended to signify the union of the Gentiles with the Jews in the church. He had mentioned it as Shem's honour, that he was the father of the Hebrews; but lest Japheth's seed should therefore be looked upon as shut out from the church, he here minds us, that he was the brother of Japheth, not in birth only, but in blessing, for Japheth was to dwell in the tents of Shem. The reason of the name of Peleg, #Ge 10:25|, because, in his days, (that is, about the time of his birth) was the earth divided among the children of men that were to inhabit it; either when Noah divided it, by an orderly distribution of it, as Joshua divided the land of Canaan by lot, or when, upon their refusal to comply with that division, God, in justice, divided them by the confusion of tongues.