Genesis 10:1-32
- The Pre-Flood home of Noah and his family was in the area of Babylonia which was some 500 miles east from Mount Ararat, in what is today modern Turkey. After the flood they migrated back to their homeland and built cities. God then caused the confusion of languages which caused them to disperse into the world.
Genesis 10:2-5
Name of the Son | People Associated With the Name |
Japheth | Greeks, Aryans of India |
Gomer | People living in area of the Black Sea, Germany and Wales. |
Magog | Reference to "Gog" referring to Georgia, a region near the Black Sea and Scythians. |
Madai | Medes (Persia), Japheth through Madai father of peoples of India. |
Javan | People of Greece and Cyprus. |
Tubal | Russian, city of Tobolsk. |
Meshech | Russian, (Name Muskovi) city of Moscow. |
Tiras | Thracians, possibly the Etruscans of Italy. |
Ashkenaz | Germany, Armenia, Scandinavia, Denmark, northern islands of Europe and European west coast. |
Ripath | Generally Europe, Carpathians and Paphlagonians |
Togarmah | Armenians, Germany and Turkey |
Elishah | Greeks ("Hellas" is a form of word Elishah) |
Tarshish | Spain, Carthage in North Africa |
Kittim | Greeks, Cyprus, Macedonia |
Dodanium | Greeks, Rhodes, Dardanelles |
As you can see from the list above Japheth descendent are the Indo-European peoples. The Indo-European peoples are identified as the "white" or Caucasian race.
After the confusion of languages at the Tower of Babel, God orderly divided up the different peoples of the world. When God changed the language of the people of the world He did so by family (tribe or clan) and nations. These families who were related found they spoke the same language and gathered together in migrating generally west and north out of Babylonia. This was probably not a migration of all these families in one group. It would seem all these families separately migrated in the same general direction because they all had a common language. This migration of people lasted over many centuries. In seeking new lands as the population grew they spread northward and to the west.
It should be noted that several cults teach that the people of the English Isles were the descendants of the Ten (supposed) Lost Tribes of Israel. There is absolutely not evidences of this. The English people are Caucasians, the descendants of Japheth, not Shem, who is the father of the Jews through Abraham.
Genesis 10:6-20
Genesis 10:21-31
Genesis 10:25
Some associate this phrase as referring to the division of the nations. Others see it as a reference of not only the division of nations caused by the confusion of languages, but of the dividing of the world into the present day continents.
Peleg's name comes from the root word "palag", which means to split (literally or figuratively) "to divide". The form or the word, "Peleg", used here means "earthquake".(3)
Geologists today have generally concluded that the continents were once connected in one giant super continent they have named "Pangaea". Computer imaging has shown how all the continents appear to fit together. As an example the eastern shores of North and South America conform to the western shore lines of Europe and Africa. Geologist call have named this the "Continental Drift Theory". The conclude that from the contour of the continents fitting so perfectly together, the rifts on the ocean floor and the present measurable movements of the continents that in the past, at some time the continent were one large land mass.
All of these evidences lead to the conclusion that if the continents did divide this dividing could have occurred in relation to the division of the languages after the Tower of Babel. Possibly, some time after the migrations caused by the confusion of languages, when the people when sufficiently dispersed, God caused the continents of move apart. This would account for man, and animals being on the isolated continents of North and South America and Australia. There were people on the continents when they moved. It appears that God not only divided the people by confusing their languages, He also divided in the land so the dispersion would continue. The division of the land precluded that the people on earth could have physically come back together had they been able to overcome the language barriers.
It is also interesting to note that this event was some five generations after the Flood. Many of the geological mysteries which are difficult to understand in relationship to the Floor could be explain by a second world wide catastrophic event such as would be caused by the sudden global shifting of the continents. Great earthquakes, volcanic activity, uplifts, flowed and sinking of vast land areas and mountain forming would be expected to accompany such vast changes in the earth's surface.
Genesis 10:32
The answer is simple. From each of Noah's sons came the three divisions of called the "races". Anthropologists divide all the world's peoples into three races, Caucasian (white), Mongoloid (yellow) and Negroid (black). Further within each of the sons was the potential to produce all the variations that is evident within the three races of man.
Click here to read my paper "The Origin of Race"
2. The New Unger's Bible Dictionary, Merrill F. Unger, Moody Press, Chicago, 1988, page 924.
3. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, James Strong, MacDonald Publishing Company, McLean, Va., Hebrew Chaldee Dictionary, Page 94.
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