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 5-23== 1Ch 1:5-23The peoples and races descended from the sons of Noah. - These are enumerated according to the table in Gen 10; ; but our author has omitted not only the introductory and concluding remarks (Gen 10:1, Gen 10:21, Gen 10:32), but also the historical notices of the founding of a kingdom in Babel by Nimrod, and the distribution of the Japhetites and Shemites in their dwelling-places (Gen 10:5, Gen 10:9-12, Gen 10:18-20, and Gen 10:30 and Gen 10:31). The remaining divergences are partly orthographic, - such as תּבּת, 1Ch 1:5, for תּוּבל, Gen 10:2, and רעמא, 1Ch 1:9, for רעמה, Gen 10:7; and partly arising from errors of transcription, - as, for example, דּיפת, 1Ch 1:6, for ריפת, Gen 10:3, and conversely, רודנים, 1Ch 1:7, for דּדנים, Gen 10:4, where it cannot with certainty be determined which form is the original and correct one; and finally, are partly due to a different pronunciation or form of the same name, - as תּרשׁישׁה, 1Ch 1:7, for תּרשׁישׁ, Gen 10:4, the aa of motion having been gradually fused into one word with the name, לוּדּיּים, 1Ch 1:11, for לוּדים, Gen 10:13, just as in Amo 9:7 we have כּוּשׁיּים for כּוּשׁים; in 1Ch 1:22, עיבל for עובל, Gen 10:28, where the lxx have also Εὐάλ, and משׁך, 1Ch 1:17, for משׁ, Gen 10:23, which last has not yet been satisfactorily explained, since משׁך is used in Psa 120:5 with קדר of an Arabian tribe. Finally, there is wanting in 1Ch 1:17 ארם וּבני before עוּץ, Gen 10:23, because, as in the case of Noah's sons, 1Ch 1:4, where their relationship is not mentioned, so also in reference to the peoples descended from Shem, the relationship subsisting between the names Uz, Hul, etc., and Aram, is supposed to be already known from Genesis. Other suppositions as to the omission of the words ארם וּבני are improbable. That this register of seventy-one persons and tribes, descended from Shem, Ham, and Japhet, has been taken from Gen 10, is placed beyond doubt, by the fact that not only the names of our register exactly correspond with the table in Gen 10, with the exception of the few variations above mentioned, but also the plan and form of both registers is quite the same. In 1Ch 1:5-9 the sections of the register are connected, as in Gen 10:2-7, by וּבני; from 1Ch 1:10 onwards by ילד, as in Gen 10:8; in 1Ch 1:17, again, by בּני, as in Gen 10:22; and in 1Ch 1:18 by ילד, and 1Ch 1:19 by ילּד, as in Gen 10:24 and Gen 10:25. The historical and geographical explanation of the names has been given in the commentary to Gen 10. According to Bertheau, the peoples descended from the sons of Noah amount to seventy, and fourteen of these are enumerated as descendants of Japhet, thirty of Ham, and twenty-six of Shem.