Discovery BoxGenesis 10:13-14
Context10:13 Mizraim 1 was the father of 2 the Ludites, 3 Anamites, 4 Lehabites, 5 Naphtuhites, 6 10:14 Pathrusites, 7 Casluhites 8 (from whom the Philistines came), 9 and Caphtorites. 10
Genesis 10:18
Context10:18 Arvadites, 11 Zemarites, 12 and Hamathites. 13 Eventually the families of the Canaanites were scattered
Genesis 10:26
Context10:26 Joktan was the father of 14 Almodad, 15 Sheleph, 16 Hazarmaveth, 17 Jerah, 18
Genesis 10:29
Context10:29 Ophir, 19 Havilah, 20 and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
Genesis 24:59
Context24:59 So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men.
[10:13] 1 sn Mizraim is the Hebrew name for Egypt (cf. NRSV).
[10:13] 3 sn The Ludites were African tribes west of the Nile Delta.
[10:13] 4 sn The Anamites lived in North Africa, west of Egypt, near Cyrene.
[10:13] 5 sn The Lehabites are identified with the Libyans.
[10:13] 6 sn The Naphtuhites lived in Lower Egypt (the Nile Delta region).
[10:14] 7 sn The Pathrusites are known in Egyptian as P-to-reshi; they resided in Upper Egypt.
[10:14] 8 sn The Casluhites lived in Crete and eventually settled east of the Egyptian Delta, between Egypt and Canaan.
[10:14] 9 tn Several commentators prefer to reverse the order of the words to put this clause after the next word, since the Philistines came from Crete (where the Caphtorites lived). But the table may suggest migration rather than lineage, and the Philistines, like the Israelites, came through the Nile Delta region of Egypt. For further discussion of the origin and migration of the Philistines, see D. M. Howard, “Philistines,” Peoples of the Old Testament World, 232.
[10:14] 10 sn The Caphtorites resided in Crete, but in Egyptian literature Caphtor refers to “the region beyond” the Mediterranean.
[10:18] 13 sn The Arvadites lived in the city Arvad, located on an island near the mainland close to the river El Kebir.
[10:18] 14 sn The Zemarites lived in the town Sumur, north of Arka.
[10:18] 15 sn The Hamathites lived in Hamath on the Orontes River.
[10:26] 20 sn The name Almodad combines the Arabic article al with modad (“friend”). Almodad was the ancestor of a South Arabian people.
[10:26] 21 sn The name Sheleph may be related to Shilph, a district of Yemen; Shalph is a Yemenite tribe.
[10:26] 22 sn The name Hazarmaveth should be equated with Hadramawt, located in Southern Arabia.
[10:26] 23 sn The name Jerah means “moon.”
[10:29] 25 sn Ophir became the name of a territory in South Arabia. Many of the references to Ophir are connected with gold (e.g., 1 Kgs 9:28, 10:11, 22:48; 1 Chr 29:4; 2 Chr 8:18, 9:10; Job 22:24, 28:16; Ps 45:9; Isa 13:12).
