19These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
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Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. …
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. …
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-23)Here is, I. Noah’s family and employment. The names of his sons are again mentioned ( Gen. 9:18 , 19 ) as those from whom the whole earth was overspread, by which it appears that Noah, after the flood, had no more children: all the world came from these three. Note, God, when he pleases, can make a little one to become a thousand , and greatly increase the latter end of those whose beginning was s…
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