Genesis 10:1-2

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Nations Descended from Noah

10 These are the generations^[a] of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; sons were born to them after the flood.

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

Footnotes

10.1 generations: This “table of the nations” makes use of old material to show how all the nations of the world as then known have descended from the generation that survived the Flood. It was from this world that Abraham was called to be the father of the chosen people.

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

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