Genesis 10:5
Good News Translation
they were the ancestors of the people who live along the coast and on the islands. These are the descendants of Japheth, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language.

New Revised Standard Version
From these the coastland peoples spread. These are the descendants of Japheth in their lands, with their own language, by their families, in their nations.

New American Bible
From these branched out the maritime nations. These are the descendants of Japheth by their lands, each with its own language, according to their clans, by their nations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.

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By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.

A.

1757. B.C.

2247. isles.

Genesis 10:25 And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days was the earth divided: and his brother's name Jectan.

Psalm 72:10 The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts:

Isaiah 24:15 Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of the Lord God of Israel in the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 40:15 Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little dust.

Isaiah 41:5 The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came.

Isaiah 42:4,10 He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth, and the islands shall wait for his law. . . .

Isaiah 49:1 Give ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from afar. The Lord hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother he hath been mindful of my name.

Isaiah 51:5 My just one is near at hand, my saviour is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people: the islands shall look for me, and shall patiently wait for my arm.

Isaiah 59:18 As unto revenge, as it were to repay wrath to his adversaries, and a reward to his enemies: he will repay the like to the islands.

Isaiah 60:9 For, the islands wait for me, and the ships of the sea in the beginning: that I may bring thy sons from afar: their silver, and their gold with them, to the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

Jeremiah 2:10 Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into Cedar, and consider diligently: and see if there hath been done any thing like this.

Jeremiah 25:22 And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon: and the kings of the land of the islands that are beyond the sea.

Zephaniah 2:11 The Lord shall be terrible upon them, and shall consume all the gods of the earth: and they shall adore him every man from his own place, all the islands of the Gentiles.

after his.

Genesis 10:20 These are the children of Cham in their kindreds and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations.

Genesis 11:1-9 And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech. . . .

Context
The Japhethites
4And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim. 5By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.
Cross References
Genesis 10:4
And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.

Genesis 10:6
And the Sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan.

Ezekiel 26:15
Thus saith the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the islands shake at the sound of thy fall, and the groans of thy slain when they shall be killed in the midst of thee?

Ezekiel 26:18
Now shall the ships be astonished in the day of thy terror: and the islands in the sea shall be troubled because no one cometh out of thee.

Daniel 11:18
And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many: and he shall cause the prince of his reproach to cease, and his reproach shall be turned upon him.

Genesis 10:4
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