1Now 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Moses begins with Japheth’s family, either because he was the eldest, or because his family lay remotest from Israel and had least concern with them at the time when Moses wrote, and therefore he mentions that race very briefly, hastening to give an account of the posterity of Ham, who were Israel’s enemies and of Shem, who were Israel’s ancestors; for it is the church that the scripture is design…
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