GENESIS
Chapter 10
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Verse 1: Noah’s 3 sons – Shem, Ham and Japeth
More genealogy!
- Japeth (verses 2-5)
- Gomer Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meschech, Tiras
- Gomer’s sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, Togarmah
- Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, Dodanim
- Ham (verses 6-20)
- Cush, Mizraim, Put, Canaan
- Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabtechah, Nimrod
- Raamah’s sons: Sheba, Dedan
- Mizraim’s sons: Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, Casluhim
- Canaan’s sons: Sidon, Heth
- Shem (verses 21-31)
- Elam, Asshur, Aphaxad, Lud, Aram
- Aram’s sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, Mash
- Aphaxad son: Salah
- Salah son: Eber
- Eber’s sons: Peleg, Joktan
- Joktan’s sons: Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, Jobab
Japeth – went northward and settled in regions around the Black and Caspian Seas (Europe & Asia). Coastland peoples (verse 5)
Ham – went southward – south and central Arabia, Egypt, east shore of Mediterranean Sea and east coast of Africa (Ethiopians, Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, African and Oriental people). Cities included Babel, Nineveh, Sodom & Gomorrah. (Verses 10, 11, 19)
Shem – went eastward (verse 30) Jews, Assyrians, Syrians, Elamites in north Euphrates Valley and it’s border. (Modern southwest Iran, eastern Iraq, Arabian peninsula, central Asia Minor) (Jesus will come through Shem’s line)
Discussion:
Each son went off in a different direction. The whole earth was theirs – they were the only living people. As their families grew, they would create nations. Reminds me of the early settlers coming to America to start a new nation. Then going westward – to the open prairies – to start a new life.
• Would it be hard to leave your parents, etc. to live in a faraway place?
• Have you come to a point in your life where you wish you could start new again?
With Jesus, you can! (2 Corinthians 5:17). You don’t have to move across the world, across the country or even across town. You can start anew right where you are. Look at the things that need to change and then start with one. One step at a time, one day at a time. When you have Jesus, you can’t fail.
Romans 6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
Colossians 3:9-11 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.
Crafts & Activities for Children:
Roll of brown craft paper or paper tablecloth
Crayons or markers
Legos or blocks
Cover a table with the brown paper or tablecloth. Draw roads, etc on the paper. Use the legos or blocks to build houses, etc and put them on the paper. Create a neighborhood or a city!
Using a large map of the world, find each place where Noah’s sons went to live.
Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture verses are from the New King James Version of the Bible.
