Gen. 9-10:
“The Rainbow And God’s Covenant / Sin Of Ham / The Table Of Nations”
By
Jim Bomkamp
1.
INTRO:
1.1.
In our last study
we looked at chapters 7 and 8 of Genesis.
1.1.1. That study dealt with all that those chapters tell us
about the flood itself and how that the Lord kept alive on the ark all eight
people along with every species of animal on the face of the earth for 377
days.
1.1.2. Our study ended with the Lord revealing to Noah His
commitment to mankind that He would never destroy the earth by water again.
1.2.
In our study
today, we are going to look at chapters 9-10 of Genesis.
1.2.1. We are going to study first of all more about the
covenant that the Lord God made with Noah and his descendants, as well as all
of the other land creatures on the earth, to never destroy the earth by water
again. The Lord will give mankind the token
of the rainbow in the sky as a reminder of His promise to never again destroy
the earth by flood.
1.2.2. We will look at how the Lord begins to prepare Noah
and his descendants for post-flood life by establishing that mankind may now
eat meat (anything on the face of the earth-no dietary restrictions) as well as
capital punishment.
1.2.3. Noah gets drunk and uncovers himself and his son Ham
discovers his father’s nakedness and does something to his father, then when
Ham tells his brothers about this they come and cover up their father’s
nakedness without looking on him.
However, when Noah finds out about what Ham has done he pronounces a
curse upon Ham’s son
1.2.4. Finally, in chapter 10 we will study what is called, “The
Table Of The Nations.” We will see
that it is detailed for us how each of the sons of Noah spread out over the
face of the earth and form the various nations and people groups that exist to
this day.
2.
VS 9:1-3 - “1
And God blessed Noah and
his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2
“The fear of you and
the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the
sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea,
into your hand they are given. 3 “Every moving thing that is alive shall be food
for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant. 4 “Only you shall not eat flesh with its
life, that is, its blood.” - The Lord
tells Noah and his sons to be fruitful and multiply, then tells him that the
every beast on the earth, bird of the sky, everything that creeps on the
ground, and every fish of the sea will live in fear and terror of man, and,
everything that is alive whether beast or plant shall be able to be eaten, with
the exception of blood
2.1.
It is interesting
here to note that it was at this time that the Lord states that all of the
animals and creatures on the face of the earth will now fear and be in terror
of mankind. In a recent National
Geographic documentary the program stated that many of the game animals in
Africa will unprovoked attack white skinned people much more readily than
others and the reason for this is that over many years most of the white
skinned people who have come to
2.2.
When the Lord
states that everything shall be for food now for mankind this does not mean
that it would be a good idea for men and women to eat anything. Rather, this is just to state that there are
for now going to be no dietary restrictions and that people are free to eat
what the want to eat.
2.3.
The only dietary
restriction given to mankind here in this post-flood prior to the giving of the
Law of Moses is to not eat blood. This
is probably a restriction because of the fact that the Lord wants men and women
to realize how incredibly unique and special are the blood of their sacrifices
which point to the blood of Christ. If
people routinely drank and ate blood then their hearts would become dull and
hardened to the good news of what the blood of Christ has procured for the
cleansing and covering of our sins.
2.4.
One of the
principles of interpretation of scripture that we have already talked about in
our study of this book is the fact that it is believed that the Lord institutes
anything for His people prior to the giving of the Law of Moses that it is
something which God’s people of all times are to keep. In the book of Acts, we read about how that
there was a controversy that arose in the Gentile churches because certain
Judaisers came into the churches and told the people that in order to get to
heaven they would need to keep the Law of Moses plus believe in Christ. They taught that this was the practice of the
mother church in
3.
VS 9:5-7 - “5
“Surely I will require
your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man,
from every man’s brother I will require the life of man. 6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his
blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man. 7 “As for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”” - Capital
punishment is established as a basis for government, and the Lord again commands
Noah and his sons to be fruitful and multiply and populate the earth
3.1.
In our country
today, people are constantly arguing about whether or not there should be such
a thing as “capital punishment” for crimes of murder which are
committed. However, here we see that
before the instituting of the Law of Moses that the Lord tells Noah and his
descendants that one of the cornerstones of government shall be that of “capital
punishment.”
3.2.
The punishment of
death for committing murder is only to be given to those who premeditatedly
commit murder. Under the Law of Moses
there is a different sentence associated with accidental murder, or what we
call “manslaughter.”
3.3.
The death penalty
has been proven to be a deterrent to crime, especially the crime of
murder. Actually, in our country today
because sentences are not executed today and when a person commits a murder he
knows that he will be out on appeals for 10-12 years before he is put to death,
the death penalty is not the deterrent that it is in many other countries.
4.
VS 9:8-17 - “8
Then God spoke to Noah
and to his sons with him, saying, 9 “Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant
with you, and with your descendants after you; 10 and with every living creature that is
with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all
that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. 11 “I establish My covenant with you; and all
flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall
there again be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 God said, “This is the sign of the
covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is
with you, for all successive generations; 13 I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be
for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. 14 “It shall come about, when I bring a cloud
over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, 15 and I will remember My covenant, which is
between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again
shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 “When the bow is in the cloud, then I will
look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living
creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of
the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the
earth.”” - The Lord
reiterates to Noah and his sons His commitment to never again destroy the earth
by flood, giving them a token of His promise in the rainbow
4.1.
This is the very
first ‘covenant’ that the Lord has ever made with mankind. As such we need to look at what this ‘covenant’
involves.
4.1.1. A ‘covenant’ is an agreement that is made
between two people regarding something that they will do. The Lord states here that He will no longer
destroy the earth by flood. This is His
commitment to mankind.
4.1.2. There are two types of covenants in the
scriptures: “unconditional covenants”
and “conditional covenants.” This
‘covenant’ is “unconditional” because the Lord does not require
anything of mankind in order for the Lord to keep His part of the ‘covenant.’
4.2.
Since rainbows
typically occur at the end of a rain storm after the clouds have dropped their
rain I would speculate that perhaps the rainbow has occurred because of the
post flood lessening of the amount of water vapor in the sky and barometric
pressure. This is only speculative, but
there could be a scientific correlation.
4.3.
After having gone
through what they went through with the flood I can imagine that Noah and his
descendants might have gotten a bit nervous every time that they saw a rain
cloud on the horizon, or a thundershower came.
In His goodness and grace the Lord provided this token to calm the fears
of generations of mankind.
4.4.
The Lord even had
compassion upon all of the animals that were upon the face of the earth we see
here for He promises to remember them in this covenant.
4.5.
An interesting
point to consider here is the fact that those who adhere to this having been a
local instead of a universal flood have a real problem with this covenant. If it was a local flood then the Lord has
broken His covenant to mankind because throughout history there have been
numerous very substantial floods that have cause great damage and loss of life.
5.
VS 9:18-27 - “18
Now the sons of Noah
who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father
of
5.1.
Noah and his
family were the only righteous people that were on the earth and thus they were
delivered from the flood that destroyed the world and everyone else upon the
planet. However, Noah and his sons still
had sin natures and sin was not destroyed in the flood. This strange and sad story reveals that mankind
had a sin nature after the flood, and that righteous people still commit sinful
acts.
5.2.
There is an
amazing similarity between the fall of Adam recorded in chapter 3 of this book
and the fall of Noah recorded here, especially if we consider that Noah was
sinning by getting drunken at this time.
Adam’s sin came in a garden because of a piece of fruit, Noah’s sin came
when he was a farmer in his vineyard also from fruit: Genesis 3:6 & 9:21.
The sin exposed both men’s nakedness; Genesis 3:7 & 9:21. After both sins a curse took place: Genesis
3:14/17 & 9:25.
5.3.
We see here that
Noah became a farmer and that he planted a vineyard. This type of career is perfectly
acceptable. However, we see here that
Noah drank a bunch of wine and ‘became drunk.’ We are not told if he was aware at this point
in time of the potential to become ‘drunk’ on wine, nor whether or not
Noah realized that he should not become ‘drunk.’
5.4.
In the
scriptures, it is not considered a sin to drink wine. Many scriptures even correlate wine with
blessing. In fact, if it were a sin to
drink wine Jesus would not have had His first miracle after beginning His
public ministry to turn water into wine at the wedding a Cana. What is decried as a sin in scripture is “drunkenness.” Many passages of scriptures command mankind
to avoid this type of behavior.
5.5.
This story though
that is described in these verses has been interpreted in many different ways
by good commentators. The questions to
consider regarding this story are these:
5.5.1. What did Ham do to his father, Noah? Verse 24 tells us that when Noah woke he realized
what Ham had ‘done to him.’
5.5.2. What was sinful about what Ham did to Noah, and why
was Noah enraged by what he did?
5.5.3. Why did Noah pronounce a curse upon Ham’s youngest
son,
5.5.4. How was this curse fulfilled since it does not appear
that
5.6.
Question #1: What did Ham do to his father?
5.6.1. Many Jewish rabbis have taught and believed that Ham
actually castrated his father at this time.
However, there is really no support for this view.
5.6.2. Many good commentators have argued that when Ham saw
his father unclothed at this time that he performed some sort of homosexual act
upon him. When Noah awoke he realized
then what had been done to him. Again,
this is only speculation.
5.6.3. Some have suggested that Noah’s being unclothed like
this was actually a reference to his wife and that perhaps either Ham had sex
with his mother or if his mother were no longer alive with his father’s new
wife or concubine. There are instances
in scripture where this type of sin is referred to as uncovering someone’s
nakedness (see for instance Lev. 18,20; Deut. 27:20).
5.6.3.1.Some have taken this farther and speculated that
5.6.4. Perhaps
5.7.
Question #2: What was sinful about what Ham did to Noah,
and why was Noah enraged by what he did?
5.7.1. Ham appears to have come to his brothers and tried to
use this finding of his father in this condition to his advantage, for the word
that is used for describing how he told his brothers about finding his father
in this state indicates that he “rejoiced or gloated” over this
discovery. Perhaps Ham was trying to use
this incident to usurp his father’s authority over his brothers in some way.
5.7.2. Whatever Ham did to Noah had to be significant in
order for Noah to pronounce such a curse on his grandson,
5.8.
Question #3: Why did Noah pronounce a curse upon Ham’s
youngest son,
.
5.8.1. Arthur Custance in his book
“Noah’s Three Sons” explains that the blessing or a curse of a father
was visited on his son and the blessing or the curse of a son was visited upon
his father. So, if Noah were to curse Ham he’d be cursing himself as he
was Ham’s father. In cursing
5.8.2. By passing judgment upon Ham’s son he was bringing the
greatest shame upon him.
5.8.3. Since
5.9.
Question #4: How was this curse carried out since it does
not appear that
5.9.1. This is possibly the hardest of the questions for us
to answer since by in large we do not see the descendants of Ham, nor his son
5.9.2. Henri Morris has suggested that the word ‘servant’
here can also be translated ‘steward’ and that this could suggest the
fulfillment. He suggests that they
invented many things and were the first to do many things but that in the end
they territories and inventions were taken over by others and utilized to their
advantage. He states that the
descendants of Ham were:
5.9.2.1.The original explorers and settlers of practical all
parts of the world after the dispersion at
5.9.2.2.First cultivators of most of the basic food staples.
5.9.2.3.Developed most of the basic structural forms, building
tools, and materials.
5.9.2.4.First to develop most of the fabrics used for clothing.
5.9.2.5.First discovered and invented a wide variety of
medicines, surgical practices and instruments.
5.9.2.6.Invented most of the concepts of basic practical
mathematics, as well as surveying and navigation.
5.9.2.7.The machinery of commerce and trade-money, banks, and
postal systems.
5.9.2.8.Developed paper, ink, block printing, movable type,
and other things involving writing and communication.
5.10. Though Ham was still one of God’s people, his heart
was not right with God and thus because of this sin he was cursed. However, Japheth and Shem walked closely with
God and were thus blessed by their father, Noah.
6.
VS 9:28-29 - “28
Noah lived three
hundred and fifty years after the flood. 29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred
and fifty years, and he died.” - Noah lives
350 years after the flood to an age of 950
6.1.
In our last
study, I mentioned that after the flood that life had changed radically upon
the earth. Probably some sort of water
canopy in an atmosphere that was able to contain much more water vapor than earth’s
atmosphere can contain today was destroyed, perhaps the barometric pressure on
the earth was lessoned to be perhaps half of what it was before, and perhaps
even the tilt of the earth’s axis was modified.
I mentioned at that time that these new conditions allowed harmful rays
from the sun now to more easily penetrate the earth and that now mankind would
not be able to live as long. Psalm 90:10
tells us here that the normal post flood longevity of man has been about 70
years, “10 As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and
sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away.” Maybe the new diet also contributed to a
shortened longevity for mankind.
However, this verse and a few others present a problem for these new
post flood conditions causing this lessening of the average longevity of a
person from several hundred years to 70 years.
The problem is that Noah lived 350 years after the flood. Later we will see that Shem lives 500 years
after the birth of Arphaschad, and others continue to live a long time.
6.2.
As I was
preparing this study a pastor friend posted an email about something that some
believed might have triggered the lessening of longevity for mankind. There are, on the end of our chromosomes,
“caps” called “telomeres.” They are kind of like a string of
beads…every time a cell divides, one of the beads drops off. Once the
limit is reached the cell can no longer divide. There is no reason our
cells could not go on reproducing themselves forever, except for this built in
limiting system. Cancer cells, for example, have no age limit, they go on
dividing forever. If your organs had the same unlimited potential for
cell division (in this case, controlled cell division) you would not have an
expiration date. Scientists studying aging are very excited about a new
enzyme that replicates telomeres. They’ve actually modified some human
cell lines to live many times past their “age limit.” This was
accomplished in Petri dishes. Human aging could have a number of
variables including possibly longer telomeres were probably the genetic norm
for those before the flood. In any
case, it appears that some sort of genetic shift in mankind must have begun
occurring post flood that brought about the shortening of longevity for
mankind.
6.3.
When it says here
that Japheth would ‘dwell in the tents of Shem’ this is just a phrase to
mean that they and their descendants would have fellowship with each
other. The same cannot be said of the
descendants of Ham.
7.
We come next to
the “Table Of Nations” which lists the genealogy of Noah’s descendants which tells us where the
various people groups and nations throughout history originated. Not only is this a remarkable chapter, it is
also a remarkably accurate historical account which is even acclaimed by those
not of the faith as Henri Morris writes, “Dr. William F. Albright,
universally acknowledged as the world’s leading authority on the archaelogy of
the Near East, though himself not a believer in the infallibility of Scripture,
said concerning this table of nations, “It stands absolutely alone in ancient
literature, without a remote parallel, even among the Greeks, where we find the
closest approach to a distribution of peoples in genealogical framework…The
Table of Nations remains an astonishingly accurate document.” This chapter is the key that links the
pre-historical world to the modern world, chapters 1-11 of Genesis to chapters
12 and beyond where we are introduced to the great Jewish patriarchs of
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph.
8.
This graphic by
Barry Setterfield shows the date of birth and date of death for each of those
in the lineage of Jesus Christ, from Adam through Jacob:
9.
This map from
Lambert Dolphin’s web page shows where each of these descendants of Shem, Ham
and Japheth settled and the nations in which they formed:
10.
These two tables
taken from Lambert Dolphin’s web page describe the nations from which each of
the descendants of Noah’s sons were derived:
11.
The number 70 has
significance. There were 70 elders under
Moses and 70 disciples of Jesus. We will
see here that there were 70 descendants of Noah from which came the nations
that are upon the earth. Likewise, in Genesis 46:26-27 we see that there were 70 descendants
of Jacob with him who went into Egypt, “26 All the persons belonging to
Jacob, who came to Egypt, his direct descendants, not including the wives of
Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all, 27 and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in
Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were
seventy.” The Jews believed that 70 nations resulted from the separation of the
nations by language in
12.
In Deuteronomy
32:8-9 it states that it was the Lord who established each of the nations on
the earth, “8 “When the Most High gave the nations their
inheritance, When He separated the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the
peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel. 9 “For the Lord’s
portion is His people; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.”
12.1. Through the way that the
Lord tells us in His word the nations were established, He would have men and
women realize that it is really He who is in control of all the world and
establishing His plans in the earth.
13.
In Acts 17:22-31
Paul speaks of the fact that it is the Lord who has formed the boundaries of
all the nations, “22 So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said,
“Men of
14.
One
of the mistakes that the church has made in understanding the various people
that came from these people groups is to believe that the these three sons of
Noah end up producing what people refer to as the three main races of people,
with the Hamites representing the black skinned people, the Japhethites the
white skinned Caucasion people, and the Shemites the Oriental people. However, the concept of race is not found in
the Bible and it is a myth of modern day thinking. All people on the face of the earth are
descended from Noah and the characteristics that typically define races are
merely genetic characteristics that can be calculated through the existence of
recessive and dominant genes. Henri
Morris has written the following about this in his commentary on Genesis, “Note
that these three streams of nations are not three "races." Though
some have thought of the Semites, Japhethites, and Hamites as three races (say,
the dusky, the white, and the black races or the Mongoloid, Caucasian, and
Negroid), this is not what the Bible teaches, nor is it what modern
anthropology and human genetics teach. There are dusky and black people found
among all three groups of nations. The Bible does not use the word
"race" nor does it acknowledge such a concept. The modern concept of
"race" is based on evolutionary thinking. To the evolutionist, a race
is a subspecies in the process of evolving into a new species, and this idea is
the basis of modern racism..."
15.
VS 10:1-5 - “1
Now these are the
records of the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and
sons were born to them after the flood. 2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer and
Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz and
Riphath and Togarmah. 4 The sons of Javan were Elishah and
Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim. 5 From these the coastlands of the nations were
separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to
their families, into their nations.” - The sons of
Japheth are recorded
15.1. Japheth was the firstborn of Noah’s sons.
15.2. The descendants of Japheth split into to groups one of
which became the family of European nations and the other the Indian people of
15.3. The first son of Japheth is ‘Gomer´ and it is
from him that German, Crimea,
15.3.1.From Gomer’s son ‘Ashkenaz’ came
15.3.2.From Gomer’s son ‘Ripath’ came the
Carpathians.
15.3.3.From Gomer’s son ‘Togermah’ came the Armenians.
15.4. The second son of Japheth is ‘Magog’ and it is
from him that
15.4.1.It is important for us to know what people group came
from ‘Magog’ because we see this name as the people group who come from
the north and attack Israel in the Ezekiel 8-39 battle. The people of ‘Magog’ are the people of
the nation of
15.5. The third son of Japheth is ‘Madai’ and from
him came the Medes (modern day Kurds who once were part of
15.6. The fourth son of Japheth is ‘Javan’ and from
him has come the Ionians, the Greeks, and the coastlands.
15.6.1.From Javan’s son ‘Elishah’
came
15.6.2.From Javan’s son ‘Tarshish’
came
15.6.3.From Javan’s son ‘Kittim’
came
15.6.4.From Javan’s son ‘Dodanim’ came
15.7. The fourth son of Japheth is ‘Tobal’ and from
him came the people of the city of
15.8. The fifth son of Japheth is ‘Meshek’ from whom
came the people of the city of
15.9. The sixth son of Japeth is ‘Tiras’ from whom
came the people from
15.10.Notice here that each of these people groups are said
to have gone ‘every one according to his language, according to their families, into
their nations,’ and notice that the division was
according to ‘language.’ We will
see in chapter 11 that it was the Lord who created all of the various
languages, which caused all of these various people groups to separate
according to their languages.
15.11.This table of nations description of chapter 10 is a
parenthesis that occurs before the next chapter that tells us how all of the
various languages came about in the first place, at the
16.
VS 10:6-20 - “6
The sons of Ham were
16.1. Ham was the third born of Noah’s sons.
16.2. The first son of Ham was ‘Cush’ from who came
the nation of
16.2.1.‘Nimrod’ the son of
16.2.1.1.Nimrod was a mighty hunter we see here, but also a man
who was in rebellion against the Lord and sought to cause the curse put upon his
father, Ham, to be a servant to his brothers, by creating mighty nations and
defying the God of heaven.
16.2.1.2.In some ways, Nimrod is a type of the anti-Christ just
as
16.2.1.3.It has been documented in a few books that all of the
false religions upon the face of the earth can be traced by to
16.2.1.4.Let’s look at some of the religion and traditions that
have come from
16.2.1.4.1.Nimrod made himself to be a god and his mother
Simaranus would be worshipped also because he concocted that she was the mother
of a god.
16.2.1.4.2.A priesthood was established where the people would
come and enter into confession booths and speak with the priest. The priests
were actually there to control the city or town. When the people would tell them things they
would have the low-down on what was going on with the people, they could
control them. This was a cultic and ANTI-GOD movement.
16.2.1.4.3.They would celebrate Nimrods birth on December 25.
16.2.1.4.4.They would cut down trees and nail them inside their
homes and decorate them.
16.2.1.4.5.The government implemented the trading of gifts to
keep the economy strong in the winter months.
16.2.1.4.6.In the spring they worshipped the rabbit because it
was a sign of fertility and they were a very sexual society and they would
color eggs because eggs were a sign of new birth and fertility.
16.2.1.4.7.All of this was institutionalized into the Roman
Empire and the Empire knew that no army could take them out but only the
Christian movement could, so the Romans starting herding up the Christians and
killing them in the arenas.
16.2.1.4.8.Then under
16.2.1.4.9.The pagan ceremonies were given Christian significance
and observed.
16.2.2.From ‘Seba’ the son of
16.2.3.From ‘Havilah’ the son of
16.2.4.From ‘Sabtah’ the son of
16.2.5.From ‘Ramah’ the son of
16.2.5.1.‘
16.2.6.‘Sabtechah’ is another son of
16.3. The second son of Ham was ‘Mizraim’ from whom
came
16.3.1.The sons of Mizraim were:
16.3.1.1.‘Ludim.’
16.3.1.2.‘Anamim.’
16.3.1.3.‘Lehabim.’
16.3.1.4.‘Naphtuhim.’
16.3.1.5.‘Pathrusim’ (from
whom came Pathros).
16.3.1.6.‘Casluhim (from which
came the Philistines).’
16.3.1.7.‘Caphtorim (
16.4. The third son of Ham was ‘Phut’ from whom came Lybia.
16.5. The fourth son of Ham was ‘
16.5.1.From ‘
16.5.2.From ‘Heth’ the son of Canaan came the Hittites
and
16.5.3.From ‘Jebusite’ the son of Canaan came the
people who lived in the vicinity of
16.5.4.From ‘Amorite’ the son of Canaan came the
people of the same name who lived in the
16.5.5.From ‘Gigashite’ the son of
16.5.6.From ‘Hivite’ the son of
16.5.7.From ‘Arkite’ the son of
16.5.8.From ‘Sinite’ the son of Canaan came the people
Sino, or
16.5.9.From ‘Arvadite’ the son of
16.5.10.From ‘Temarite’ the son of
16.5.11.From ‘Hamathite’ the son of
17.
VS 10:21-31 - “21
Also to Shem, the
father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth,
children were born. 22 The sons of Shem were
17.1. Shem was the second born of Noah’s sons.
17.2. ‘
17.3. ‘Assur’ was the second son of Shem.
17.4. The third son of Shem was ‘Arphaxad,’ and here
we begin the lineage of Jesus Christ.
17.4.1.From Arphaxad came ‘Salah.’
17.4.1.1.From Salah came ‘Eber’ (it is from his name
that the name “Hebrew” came).
17.4.1.1.1.‘Peleg’ begat
17.4.1.1.2.‘Reu’ begat
17.4.1.1.3.‘Seleg’ begat
17.4.1.1.4.‘Nahor’ begat
17.4.1.1.5.‘Terah’ begat
17.4.1.1.6.‘Abram’ begat
17.4.1.1.7.‘Isaac’ begat
17.4.1.1.8.‘Jacob,’ ‘Esau,’ and ‘Ishmael.’
17.5. The fourth son of Shem was ‘Lud’ from whom came
the people of
17.6. The fifth son of Shem was ‘
17.6.1.From ‘Uz’ the son of
17.6.2.‘Hui’ was a son of
17.6.3.‘Gether’ was a son of
17.6.4.‘Mash’ was a son of
18.
VS 10:32 - “32
These are the families
of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations; and out
of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.” - The chapter
is summarized as providing for us the families of Noah by their genealogies,
explaining from whence the nations of the earth emerged