KJV ORIGINAL
These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
These are the three sons of Noah, and from them all the people of the earth descended.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse explains that all humanity comes from Noah's three sons after the great flood.
📚 Historical Context
In the biblical narrative of Genesis, this verse comes right after the great flood, where Noah and his family survived in the ark and God made a covenant with them to repopulate the earth. Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, are introduced as the ancestors of all people groups, symbolizing how humanity spread out from a single family to fill the world. This highlights the theme of divine provision and human multiplication in the early chapters of Genesis.
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