31 Nations Begin to Populate the World

The biblical text (Genesis 10: 18b) tells us that after some time in the initial settlements they spread abroad. Some think due to Heth’s migration that this is the family (tribe) that began China, the Mongols, Japanese and the American Indians. Genesis 10: 19 describes the borders of Canaan’s initial dispersion. It was Phoenicia in the northwest, Philistia in the Southwest, The Arabah in the Southeast and then Lasha on the Northeast. This territory is almost the same as what God promised to Abraham (see charts). The finishing touch the author of this section of Genesis gives us appears in Genesis 10: 20. It describes the spread of Ham, his sons and their divisions by tribe, family, language, territory and their nations. There are a total of thirty nations mentioned in the Bible of Ham