Reading for February 11th

Read Genesis 10.1-32 A list of nations descended from Noah's three sons.
This genealogy traces the family line of all the known peoples of the earth back to the
three sons of Noah: Japheth, Ham, and Shem.
Each of the peoples or groups listed have their own families, their languages,
their lands, and their nations: This refrain is repeated three times (10.5, 20, 31).
In verses 2-5 the descendants of Japheth include peoples to the north and west of Canaan in
Greece and Asia Minor and the coastland peoples of the Mediterranean Sea such as the Philistines.
In verses 6-20 the descendants of Ham represent the nations under Egypt's influence at the time in Africa and Mesopotamia, including the land in and around Canaan itself (vv. 15-20).
The list of nations contains an old legend about a great warrior names Nimrod.
Nimrod conquered the land of Shinar or Babylon (see Babel in v. 10) and the land of
Assyria with its great city of Nineveh (vv. 11-12; see Mic 5.5-6).
The story of the tower of Babel will be set in the land of Shinar (11.2).
In verses 21-31 Shem is the ancestor of the Semitic peoples who lived in and around Assyria
and the Arabian Peninsula.
Shem is the father of all the children of Eber (v. 21).
Eber may be related to the word "Hebrew," which describes a number of wandering peoples
on the margins of society.
One of these groups formed the core of the Hebrew or Israelite people (14.13; Ex 9.13).
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