Genesis 10 supplies the controlling names, relationships, nations, tongues, lands, borders, and cities.
Read Genesis 10 →Table of Nations · Genesis 10 beside Jasher
Noah’s sons
Families spread across the earth
Follow the named families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth after the Flood. The KJV establishes the family lines and biblical geography; Jasher supplies a more detailed post-Babel settlement tradition, always labeled as historical testimony rather than Scripture.
The governing order
Scripture names the families; Jasher adds a settlement tradition.
Jasher 7 expands some descendant lists; Jasher 10 describes where its text says families settled after Babel.
Read Jasher 10 →Later names in Jasher are reported as written. They are not silently converted into proven modern ancestry.
The KJV conclusion
One household becomes families, tongues, lands, and nations.
Genesis does not merely give a list of personal names. It repeatedly organizes Noah’s descendants by family, language, land, and nation, then concludes that the nations were divided through these families after the Flood.
Genesis 10:32
King James Version“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.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.
Three family branches
What each source says about their spread
The family names follow the KJV spelling. Jasher’s different spellings and added descendants can be examined through the linked historical text.
Son of Noah
Japheth
Gomer · Magog · Madai · Javan · Tubal · Meshech · TirasGenesis 10:2–5 · KJV foundation
Scripture associates Japheth’s branches with the isles of the Gentiles and says they were divided in their lands, tongues, families, and nations. It does not provide a modern country-by-country identification.
Open the KJV record →Jasher 10:6–18 · historical parallel
Jasher describes Japheth’s families spreading into northern and western regions. Its text uses names resembling France, Macedonia, Tuscany, Lombardy, Italy, and Rome. These are later geographical identifications reported by Jasher, not names supplied by Genesis.
Open the Jasher report →Son of Noah
Ham
Cush · Mizraim · Phut · CanaanGenesis 10:6–20 · KJV foundation
Scripture connects Cush with Nimrod and Shinar, traces peoples from Mizraim including the Philistim, and gives the Canaanite border from Sidon toward Gerar, Gaza, Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim, and Lasha.
Open the KJV record →Jasher 10:19–29 · historical parallel
Jasher places Mizraim’s families by Sihor, the brook of Egypt; connects related families with Gaza, Gerar, Gath, and Ekron; describes Canaanite cities and the cities of the plain; and places Seir’s household near Mount Paran.
Open the Jasher report →Son of Noah
Shem
Elam · Asshur · Arphaxad · Lud · AramGenesis 10:21–31 · KJV foundation
Scripture follows Shem through Eber, Peleg, and Joktan. It places Joktan’s dwelling from Mesha toward Sephar, a mount of the east, and preserves the line through Arphaxad that continues to Abram in Genesis 11.
Open the KJV record →Jasher 10:30–37 · historical parallel
Jasher says Asshur’s household established Nineveh, Resen, Calah, and Rehoboth, and that Aram’s descendants named a city and land for Uz. It presents these as post-Babel settlements of Shem’s families.
Open the Jasher report →Read the geography carefully
Three safeguards against false precision
The page is designed to help readers follow the record without turning a difficult ancient geography into a confident but unsupported modern map.
Names can become place-names
Genesis and Jasher both preserve cases in which families, peoples, lands, and cities share a name. A name on the page does not always identify only one individual or one fixed border.
Babel belongs in the sequence
Genesis 10 describes the resulting nations by their tongues, while Genesis 11 records the confusion of language and scattering. The chapter arrangement should not be mistaken for a claim that every settlement was completed before Babel.
Modern identifications require restraint
Some traditional identifications are plausible; others are disputed or use names from much later periods. This page reports the sources without claiming that every modern population can be mapped with certainty to one Genesis 10 ancestor.
What the page establishes