...signifies division. And that name was given to him ; "for in his days was the earth divided " " among the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations in their nations."* Or, in other words, as modern discoveries or researches show, " all the epochs of primitive kingdoms...

...truth of Holy writ, and that once the world " was of one language and one speech ;"* and thai by " the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations,...these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood."f Various have been the theories of learned antiquaries as to the derivation of the orthography...

...the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. 32 0 nation?- and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the. flood, CHAP. XL AND the whole...

...must be, merely parenthetical, whilst the latter part of the sentence refers, and can refer, only to the " families of the sons of Noah after their generations, in their nations." All those, however, of whom it is afterwards said, " that by them were the nations divided in the earth...

...Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. 32 These arc ank, and their beasts alto. 12 * And the LORD spake...me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children CHAP. XI. 1 One language in the world. 3 The tmildinfr fif Kabul. A The confusion of tongue*. 10 The...

...them. And thus were they divided after their FAMILIES, after their TONGUES, in their COUNTRIES, and in their NATIONS ; and by these were the nations DIVIDED in the earth after the flood (Gen. x). This view of the origin of the diversity of languages is confirmed by the facts which we...

...Moses, These were the sons of Noah after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations ; and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the food; but, I think, this opinion cannot be admitted, for several reasons. i . The dispersion of mankind...

...tenth chapter, after an enumeration of the offspring of Noah's, sons, we find the following verse. " These are the families of the sons of Noah, after...the nations divided in the earth after the flood." The descendants of Canaan, after the dispersion, spread towards the South, and occupied the continent...

...original inhabitants of India •were the descendants of the sons of Shem, respecting whom it is said, " By these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood," Gen. viii. 32. For it is said again, that " they journeyed to the east" at the time that some particular...

...after their tongues, in their countries or lands, and after their nations." And then it is added, " These are the families of the sons of Noah, after...the nations divided in the earth after the flood." A remarkable expression in the song of Moses seems to corroborate the opinion that the number of families...