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1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5 "By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations."
6 "And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan."
7 "And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan."
8 "And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth."
9 "He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD."
Some have speculated that Nimrod may have even hunted the dinosaurs. A feat that would truly make him a "mighty hunter".
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
Question:
the names of Eber’s sons Joktan and Peleg, (Genesis ch.10
ver.25.) mentioned in genesis have a meaning that is pertinent to the division of the earth in to separate land masses? the reason being the meaning of the name of Enoch’s son Methuselah has something to do w/ the beginning
of the flood. if you can help me in any way basically i want to know the meaning of Peleg and Joktan.
sincerely, Curtis M. 7/4/01
Answer:
Actually this division was by languages and tribes after the tower of Babel.
I believe the continents separated at the time of the flood.
"An interesting piece of information comes from Manetho, who recorded the history of Egypt in the third century BC. He wrote that the Tower of Babel occurred five years after the birth of Peleg."
("Manetho, The Book of Sothis, Harvard Press, Cambridge, MA, p. 239. (Loeb Classical Library 350)"
(source: "In the days of Peleg" by Larry Pierce, Creation Ex Nihilo 22(1):46–49 December 1999–February 2000)
Question:
"I had heard that pyramids in Egypt can be dated back
past the 6,000 yrs which Creationist claim the world to be. Do you have any evidence against this?"
Thanks, Mandy 8/19/02
Answer:
There is no way to reliably date the pyramids. If you read pg 77-80 of "The Puzzle of Ancient man" by Donald E. Chittick, he tells of how the pyramids were built in the years after the flood (making them much younger than is
alleged) by the people scattering out from the tower of Babel after God had confused their languages.
"The Byzantine chronicler Constantinus Manasses (d. 1187) wrote that the Egyptian state lasted 1663 years. If correct, then counting backward from the time that Cambyses, king of Persia, conquered Egypt in 526 BC, gives us the year of 2188 BC for the founding of Egypt, about 60 years after the birth of Peleg. About this time Mizraim, the son of Ham, led his colony into Egypt. Hence the Hebrew word for Egypt is Mizraim4 (or sometimes ‘the land of Ham’ e.g. Psalms 105:23,27)."
(source: "In the days of Peleg" by Larry Pierce, Creation Ex Nihilo 22(1):46–49 December 1999–February 2000)
26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
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