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Genesis 10:5

Genesis 10:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

By these were the isles of the Gentiles. Sea-washed coasts as well as islands proper (cf. with ). Isaiah () styles Canaan an isle (cf. Peloponnesus). The expression signifies maritime countries. Divided in their lands; every one after his tongue. Indicating a time posterior to the building of Babel (). After their families ἐ ν ταῖ ς φυλαῖ ς αὐ τῶ ν (LXX.); in their tribes or clans, a lesser subdivision than the next. In their nations. The division here exhibited is fourfold:

The first defines the territory occupied, and the second the language spoken by the Japhethites; the third their immediate descent, and the rough the national group to which they severally belonged.

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