The Generations of Adam

Chapter 10

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Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

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

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And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

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And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

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By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

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And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

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And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

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And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

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He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

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And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

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And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

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And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

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And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

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And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,

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And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

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And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

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And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

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And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

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These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

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Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

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The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

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And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

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And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

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And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

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And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

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And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

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And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

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And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

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And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

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These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

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These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.Genesis 11
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Their is little theological here other than pure written history as to the descendants of Eden.

The Three Sons Of Noah, of Japheth, of Ham

The sons of Noah, of Japheth, of Ham.

This chapter shows concerning the three sons of Noah, that of them was the whole earth overspread. No nation but that of the Jews can be sure from which of these seventy it has come. The lists of names of fathers and sons were preserved of the Jews alone, for the sake of the Messiah. Many learned men, however, have, with some probability, shown which of the nations of the earth descended from each of the sons of Noah To the posterity of Japheth were allotted the isles of the gentiles; probably, the island of Britain among the rest. All places beyond the sea fr
om Judea are called isles, Jer 25:22 (22.And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,)
. That promise, Isa 42:4 (4He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.)
, The isles shall wait for his law, speaks of the conversion of the gentiles to the faith of Christ. (Ge 10:8-14)8.And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

9.He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

10.And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

11.Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

12.And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

13.And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

14.And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

More On Noah In Ge chapter 9

God blesses Noah, and grants flesh for food.

The blessing of God is the cause of our doing well. On him we depend, to him we should be thankful. Let us not forget the advantage and pleasure we have from the labour of beasts, and which their flesh affords. Nor ought we to be less thankful for the security we enjoy from the savage and hurtful beasts, through the fear of man which God has fixed deep in them. We see the fulfilment of this promise every day, and on every side. This grant of the animals for food fully warrants the use of them, but not the abuse of them by gluttony, still less by cruelty. We ought not to pain them needlessly while they live, nor when we take away their lives. (Ge 9:4-7)

Blood, and murder forbidden.

The main reason of forbidding the eating of blood, doubtless was because the shedding of blood in sacrifices was to keep the worshippers in mind of the great atonement; yet it seems intended also to check cruelty, lest men, being used to shed and feed upon the blood of animals, should grow unfeeling to them, and be less shocked at the idea of shedding human blood. Man must not take away his own life. Our lives are God's, and we must only give them up when he pleases. If we in any way
hasten our own death, we are accountable to God for it. When God requires the life of a man from him that took it away unjustly, the murderer cannot render that, and therefore must render his own instead. One time or other, in this world or in the next, God will discover murders, and punish those murders which are beyond man's power to punish. But there are those who are ministers of God to protect the innocent, by being a terror to evil-doers, and they must not bear the sword in vain,

Ro 13:4. Wilful murder ought always to be punished with death. To this law there is a reason added. Such remains of God's image are still upon fallen man, that he who unjustly kills a man, defaces the image of God, and does dishonour to him. (Ge 9:8-17)

God's covenant by the rainbow.

As the old world was ruined, to be a monument of justice, so this world remains to this day a monument of mercy. But sin, that drowned the old world, will burn this. Articles of agreement among men are sealed, that what is promised may be the more solemn, and the doing of what is covenanted the more sure to mutual satisfaction. The seal of this covenant was the rainbow, which, it is likely, was seen in the clouds before, but was never a seal of the covenant till now it was made so.

The rainbow appears when we have most reason to fear the rain prevailing; God then shows this seal of the promise, that it shall not prevail. The thicker the cloud, the brighter the bow in the cloud. Thus, as threatening afflictions abound, encouraging consolations much more abound. The rainbow is the reflection of the beams of the sun shining upon or through the drops of rain: all the glory of the seals of the covenant are derived from Christ, the Sun of righteousness. And he will shed a glory

on the tears of his saints. A bow speaks terror, but this has neither string nor arrow; and a bow alone will do little hurt. It is a bow, but it is directed upward, not toward the earth; for the seals of the covenant were intended to comfort, not to terrify. As God looks upon the bow, that he may remember the covenant, so should we, that we may be mindful of the covenant with faith and thankfulness. Without revelation this gracious assurance could not be known; and without faith it can be of no

use to us; and thus it is as to the still greater dangers to which all are exposed, and as to the new covenant with its blessings. (Ge 9:18-23)

Noah plants a vineyard, is drunken and mocked by Ham.

The drunkenness of Noah is recorded in the Bible, with that fairness which is found only in the Scripture, as a case and proof of human weakness and imperfection, even though he may have been surprised into the sin; and to show that the best of men cannot stand upright, unless they depend upon Divine grace, and are upheld thereby. Ham appears to have been a bad man, and probably rejoiced to find his father in an unbecoming situation. It was said of Noah, that he was perfect in his

generations, ch. 6:9; but this is meant of sincerity, not of a sinless perfection. Noah, who had kept sober in drunken company, is now drunk in sober company. Let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall. We have need to be very careful when we use God's good creatures plentifully, lest we use them to excess, Lu 21:34. The consequence of Noah's sin was shame. Observe here the great evil of the sin of

drunkenness. It discovers men; what infirmities they have, they betray when they are drunk; and secrets are then easily got out of them. Drunken porters keep open gates. It disgraces men, and exposes them to contempt. As it shows them, so it shames them. Men say and do that when drunken, which, when sober, they would blush to think of. Notice the care of Shem and Japheth to cover their father's shame. There is a mantle of love to be thrown over the faults of all, 1Pe

4:8. Beside that, there is a robe of reverence to be thrown over the faults of parents and other superiors. The blessing of God attends on those who honour their parents, and his curse lights especially on those who dishonour them. (Ge 9:24-29)

Noah curses Canaan, blesses Shem, prays for Japheth, His death.

Noah declares a curse on Canaan, the son of Ham; perhaps this grandson of his was more guilty than the rest. A servant of servants, that is, The meanest and most despicable servant, shall he be, even to his brethren. This certainly points at the victories in after-times obtained by Israel over the Canaanites, by which they were put to the sword, or brought to pay tribute. The whole continent of Africa was peopled mostly by the descendants of Ham; and for how many ages have the better

parts of that country lain under the dominion of the Romans, then of the Saracens, and now of the Turks! In what wickedness, ignorance, barbarity, slavery, and misery most of the inhabitants live! And of the poor negroes, how many every year are sold and bought, like beasts in the market, and conveyed from one quarter of the world to do the work of beasts in another! But this in no way excuses the covetousness and barbarity of those who enrich themselves with the product of their sweat and

blood. God has not commanded us to enslave negroes; and, without doubt, he will severely punish all such cruel wrongs. The fulfilment of this prophecy, which contains almost a history of the world, frees Noah from the suspicion of having uttered it from personal anger. It fully proves that the Holy Spirit took occasion from Ham's offence to reveal his secret purposes. to ?Blessed be the Lord God of Shem. to ? The church should be built up and continued in the posterity of Shem; of him came the

Jews, who were, for a great while, the only professing people God had in the world. Christ, who was the Lord God, in his human nature should descend from Shem; for of him, as concerning the flesh, Christ came. Noah also blesses Japheth, and, in him, the isles of the gentiles that were peopled by his seed. It speaks of the conversion of the gentiles, and the bringing of them into the church. We may read it, to ?God shall persuade Japheth, and being persuaded, he shall dwell in the tents of

Shem. to ? Jews and gentiles shall be united together in the gospel fold; both shall be one in Christ. Noah lived to see two worlds; but being an heir of the righteousness which is by faith, he now rests in hope, waiting to see a better than either.
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[This is a wonderfull post Karen, thanks, and a must read. ed...goat]

Noah's faith and obedience

Noah's faith triumphed over all corrupt reasonings. To rear so large a building, such a one as he never saw, and to provide food for the living creatures, would require from him a great deal of care, and labour, and expense. His neighbours would laugh at him. But all such objections, Noah, by faith, got over; his obedience was ready and resolute.
Having begun to build, he did not leave off till he had finished: so did he, and so must we do. He feared the deluge, and therefore prepared the ark. And in the warning given to Noah, there is a more solemn warning given to us, to flee from the wrath to come, which will sweep the world of unbelievers into the pit of destruction. Christ, the true Noah, which same shall comfort us, hath by his sufferings already prepared the ark, and kindly invites us by faith to enter in. While the day of his patience continues, let us hear and obey his voice.

Onward in Study

Much thanks to Karen for her brilliant posts, a much better student than I as we work our way through the Torah. I will add a must read article and resource though a little out of context.
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Chapter 9

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And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

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And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

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Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

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But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

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And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

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Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

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And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

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And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

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And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

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And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

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And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

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And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

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I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

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And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

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And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

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And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

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And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

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And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

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These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

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And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

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And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

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And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

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And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

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And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

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And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

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God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

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And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

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And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

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There is a tremendous amount of metaphoric symbolism and truth in this powerful chapter with much dealing with the basic tenets of life as Moses would elaborate on and consolidate later. Most of the chapter is easy to understand till the end and the curse on Canaan. When they covered him was it taken as the covering of Adam?
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I believe my mind is made up as to my church, I have been Anglican most of my life but their doctrine left me so I have been in limbo. I will return to St. Peter's Church and the doctrine and dogma of the Catholic faith, I used to know it in Latin: All roads lead to Rome. To think I used to be a major basher of the Catholic church, I guess most of us grow up eventually.

Noah warned of the flood, The directions respecting the ark.

God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Ps 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply the declarations and warnings of the written word. God chose to do it by a flood of waters, which should drown the world. As he chooses the rod with which he corrects his children, so he chooses the sword with which he cuts off his enemies.

God established his covenant with Noah. This is the first place in the Bible where the word to ?covenant to ? is found; it seems to mean;
1. The covenant of providence; that the course of nature shall be continued to the end of time.
2. The covenant of grace; that God would be a God to Noah, and that out of his seed God would take to himself a people. God directed Noah to make an ark. This ark was like the hulk of a ship, fitted to float upon the waters. It was very large, half the size of St. Paul's cathedral,and would hold more than eighteen of the largest ships now used. God could have secured Noah without putting him to any care, or pains, or trouble; but employed him in making that which was to be the means to preserve him, for the trial of his faith and obedience. Both the providence of God, and the grace of God, own and crown the obedient and diligent. God gave Noah particular orders how to make the ark, which could not therefore but be well fitted for the purpose. God promised Noah that he and his family should be kept alive in the ark. What we do in obedience to God, we and our families are likely to have the benefit of. The piety of parents gets their children good in this life, and furthers them in the way to eternal life, if they improve it. (Ge 6:22)

22.Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Noah finds grace

Noah did not find favour in the eyes of men; they hated and persecuted him, because both by his life and preaching he condemned the world: but he found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and this made him more truly honourable than the men of renown. Let this be our chief desire, let us labour that we may be accepted of him. When the rest of the world was wicked, Noah kept his integrity. God's good-will towards Noah produced this good work in him. He was a just man, that is, justified

before God, by faith in the promised Seed. As such he was made holy, and had right principles; and was righteous in his conversation. He was not only honest, but devout; it was his constant care to do the will of God. God looks down upon those with an eye of favour, who sincerely look up to him with an eye of faith. It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it shows strong faith and resolution, to swim against the stream, and to appear for God when no one else appears for him;

Noah did so. All kinds of sin were found among men. They corrupted God's worship. Sin fills the earth with violence, and this fully justified God's resolution to destroy the world. The contagion spread. When wickedness is become general, ruin is not far off; while there is a remnant of praying people in a nation, to empty the measure as it fills, judgments may be long kept off; but when all hands are at work to pull down the fences, by sin, and none stand in the gap to make up the breach, what

can be expected but a flood of wrath? (Ge 6:12-21)

12.And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

13.And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

14.Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

15.And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

17.And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

18.But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

19.And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

20.Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

21.And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

More About Noah

The wickedness of the world which provoked God's wrath.

The most remarkable thing concerning the old world, is the destroying of it by the deluge, or flood. We are told of the abounding iniquity of that wicked world: God's just wrath, and his holy resolution to punish it. In all ages there has been a peculiar curse of God upon marriages between professors of true religion and its avowed enemies. The evil example of the ungodly party corrupts or greatly hurts the other. Family religion is put an end to, and the children are trained up according to the worldly maxims of that parent who is without the fear of God. If we profess to be the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, we must not marry without his consent. He will never give his blessing, if we prefer beauty, wit, wealth, or worldly honours, to faith and holiness. The Spirit of God strove with men, by sending Enoch, Noah, and perhaps others, to preach to them; by waiting to be gracious, notwithstanding their rebellions; and by exciting alarm and convictions in their consciences. But the Lord declared that his Spirit should not thus strive with men always; he would leave them to be hardened in sin, and ripened for destruction.


This he determined on, because man was flesh: not only frail and feeble, but carnal and depraved;
having misused the noble powers of his soul to gratify his corrupt inclinations. God sees all the wickedness that is among the children of men; it cannot be hid from him now; and if it be not repented of, it shall be made known by him shortly. The wickedness of a people is great indeed, when noted sinners are men renowned among them. Very much sin was committed in all places, by all sorts of people. Any one might see that the wickedness of man was great: but God saw that every imagination, or purpose, of the thoughts of man's heart, was only evil continually. This was the bitter root, the corrupt spring. The heart was deceitful and desperately wicked; the principles were corrupt; the habits and dispositions evil. Their

designs and devices were wicked. They did evil deliberately, contriving how to do mischief. There was no good among them. God saw man's wickedness as one injured and wronged by it. He saw it as a tender father sees the folly and stubbornness of a rebellious and disobedient child, which grieves him, and makes him wish he had been childless. The words here used are remarkable; they are used after the manner of men, and do not mean that God can change, or be unhappy. Does God thus hate our sin?
And shall not we be grieved to the heart for it?
Oh that we may look on Him whom we have grieved, and mourn! God repented that he had made man; but we never find him repent that he redeemed man. God resolves to destroy man: the original word is very striking, to ?I will wipe off man from the earth, to ? as dirt or filth is wiped off from a place which should be clean, and is thrown to the dunghill, the proper place for it. God speaks of man as his own creature, when he resolves upon his punishment. Those forfeit their lives who do not answer the end of their living. God speaks of resolution concerning men, after his Spirit had been long striving with them in vain. None are punished by the justice of God, but those who hate to be reformed by the grace of God. (Ge 6:8-11)

8.But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

9.These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

10.And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11.The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.