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# Genesis 10

Genesis 10 is chapter 10 of 50 in the Book of Genesis. Here are all 32 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The genealogy of the children of Noe, by whom the world was peopled after the flood.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Genesis 10 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. These are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and of the sons who were born to them after the great flood.
2. The sons of Japheth were Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
3. And then the sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
4. And the sons of Javan were Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
5. The islands of the Gentiles were divided by these into their regions, each one according to his tongue, and their families in their nations.
6. And the Sons of Ham were Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.
7. And the sons of Cush were Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dadan.
8. And then Cush conceived Nimrod; he began to be powerful on the earth.
9. And he was an able hunter before the Lord. From this, a proverb came forth: ‘Just like Nimrod, an able hunter before the Lord.’
10. And so, the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Erech, and Accad, and Chalanne, in the land of Shinar.
11. From that land, Assur came forth, and he built Nineveh, and the streets of the city, and Calah,
12. and also Resen, between Nineveh and Calah. This is a great city.
13. And truly, Mizraim conceived Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
14. and Pathrusim, and Casluhim, from whom came forth the Philistines and the Caphtorim.
15. Then Canaan conceived Sidon his firstborn, the Hittite,
16. and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, the Girgashite,
17. the Hivite, and the Arkite: the Sinite,
18. and the Arvadian, the Samarite, and the Hamathite. And after this, the peoples of the Canaanites became widespread.
19. And the borders of Canaan went, as one travels, from Sidon to Gerar, even to Gaza, until one enters Sodom and Gomorrah, and from Admah and Zeboiim, even to Lesa.
20. These are the sons of Ham in their kindred, and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations.
21. Likewise, from Shem, the father of all the sons of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.
22. The sons of Shem were Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
23. The sons of Aram were Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
24. But truly, Arphaxad conceived Shelah, from whom was born Eber.
25. And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth became divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.
26. This Joktan conceived Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, Jerah
27. and Hadoram, and Uzal and Diklah,
28. and Obal and Abimael, Sheba
29. and Ophir, and Havilah and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
30. And their habitation extended from Messa, as one sojourns, even to Sephar, a mountain in the east.
31. These are the sons of Shem according to their kindred, and tongues, and the regions within their nations.
32. These are the families of Noah, according to their peoples and nations. The nations became divided according to these, on the earth after the great flood.

## Genesis 10 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Hæ sunt generationes filiorum Noë, Sem, Cham et Japheth: natique sunt eis filii post diluvium.
2. Filii Japheth: Gomer, et Magog, et Madai, et Javan, et Thubal, et Mosoch, et Thiras.
3. Porro filii Gomer: Ascenez et Riphath et Thogorma.
4. Filii autem Javan: Elisa et Tharsis, Cetthim et Dodanim.
5. Ab his divisæ sunt insulæ gentium in regionibus suis, unusquisque secundum linguam suam et familias suas in nationibus suis.
6. Filii autem Cham: Chus, et Mesraim, et Phuth, et Chanaan.
7. Filii Chus: Saba, et Hevila, et Sabatha, et Regma, et Sabatacha. Filii Regma: Saba et Dadan.
8. Porro Chus genuit Nemrod: ipse cœpit esse potens in terra,
9. et erat robustus venator coram Domino. Ob hoc exivit proverbium: Quasi Nemrod robustus venator coram Domino.
10. Fuit autem principium regni ejus Babylon, et Arach et Achad, et Chalanne, in terra Sennaar.
11. De terra illa egressus est Assur, et ædificavit Niniven, et plateas civitatis, et Chale.
12. Resen quoque inter Niniven et Chale: hæc est civitas magna.
13. At vero Mesraim genuit Ludim, et Anamim et Laabim, Nephthuim,
14. et Phetrusim, et Chasluim: de quibus egressi sunt Philisthiim et Caphtorim.
15. Chanaan autem genuit Sidonem primogenitum suum. Hethæum,
16. et Jebusæum, et Amorrhæum, Gergesæum,
17. Hevæum, et Aracæum: Sinæum,
18. et Aradium, Samaræum, et Amathæum: et post hæc disseminati sunt populi Chananæorum.
19. Factique sunt termini Chanaan venientibus a Sidone Geraram usque Gazam, donec ingrediaris Sodomam et Gomorrham, et Adamam, et Seboim usque Lesa.
20. Hi sunt filii Cham in cognationibus, et linguis, et generationibus, terrisque et gentibus suis.
21. De Sem quoque nati sunt, patre omnium filiorum Heber, fratre Japheth majore.
22. Filii Sem: Ælam, et Assur, et Arphaxad, et Lud, et Aram.
23. Filii Aram: Us, et Hul, et Gether, et Mes.
24. At vero Arphaxad genuit Sale, de quo ortus est Heber.
25. Natique sunt Heber filii duo: nomen uni Phaleg, eo quod in diebus ejus divisa sit terra: et nomen fratris ejus Jectan.
26. Qui Jectan genuit Elmodad, et Saleph, et Asarmoth, Jare,
27. et Aduram, et Uzal, et Decla,
28. et Ebal, et Abimaël, Saba,
29. et Ophir, et Hevila, et Jobab: omnes isti, filii Jectan.
30. Et facta est habitatio eorum de Messa pergentibus usque Sephar montem orientalem.
31. Isti filii Sem secundum cognationes, et linguas, et regiones in gentibus suis.
32. Hæ familiæ Noë juxta populos et nationes suas. Ab his divisæ sunt gentes in terra post diluvium.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 56: The Stages of Revelation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 5: “The islands” … So the Hebrews called all the remote countries, to which they went by ships from Judea, to Greece, Italy, Spain, etc.
- Verse 9: Not of beasts but of men: whom by violence and tyranny he brought under his dominion. And such he was, not only in the opinion of men, but before the Lord, that is, in his sight who cannot be deceived.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).