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Genesis 10 Bible study: Every nation, one family
Counted name by name, Genesis 10 lists seventy descendants of Noah's sons and says every nation came from that one family. The families listed here are "the families of the earth" God promises to bless through Abram two chapters later.
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“These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these on the earth after the flood.”
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“‘Babel’ and ‘Babylon’ are the same name in Hebrew.”
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What's really going on
Every nation, one family
Genesis 9 ended with the three sons of Noah: "from these the whole earth was populated" (9:19). Chapter 10 shows how. It closes: "These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these on the earth after the flood" (10:32). Paul says the same thing in Athens: God "made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth" (Acts 17:26).
Where it leads to Jesus
Every nation before the Lamb
Genesis 10:32leads toRevelation 7:9-10
Genesis 10 lists the nations by families, languages, lands and nations. Revelation sees "a great multitude… out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb". Revelation doesn't cite Genesis 10, so this link is a reading of the whole Bible's story, held by many: it runs through God's promise that all the families of the earth will be blessed (12:3), which Paul calls the Good News (Galatians 3:8). Others read Genesis 10 simply as a record of where the peoples came from, without a link forward.
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Questions people ask about Genesis 10
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The rest of Genesis 10 is waiting in Favor
- Languages before the tower
- Watching one branch
- The nations and the promise
- Names that come back
- 10 questions as you read
- 6 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
גּוֹיgoysay GOY
Nation, people (Brown-Driver-Briggs). Its first appearance in the Bible is in this chapter (10:5), and it appears six times here. Its next use is God's promise to Abram: "I will make of you a great nation" (12:2). Later God says that "all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him" (18:18), and "by your offspring" (22:18). It's the same word as the nations listed in chapter 10.
For your group
Genesis 10 Bible study questions
- 1Every nation in this chapter comes from one family. How should that shape the way you see people from other nations?
- 2This chapter is full of names most of us skip. Why do you think Genesis names the nations one by one?
- 3Nimrod became a saying: "like Nimrod, a mighty hunter". What would you want people to say about you?
Leading a group? In Favor, everyone reads Genesis 10 during the week and answers these questions privately. Answers stay sealed until you meet, then appear together, and you can print the week's sheet.
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