Genesis 10:1

Verse

RBT Translation:

And these are births of the builders of Rest, Name, Warm,³⁵⁶ and Opened. And builders are being born to-themselves of a back-one of the Flow.

LITV Translation:
And these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.

ESV Translation:
These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

Brenton Septuagint Translation:
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.

Footnotes

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Who is Ham?

Some insight to the allegorical picture behind Ham is seen in his verb stem.

Samson in Judges 15:16 makes a riddle of the words chamor, and aleph as pointed out by Charles Ellicott in his commentary:

a sort of punning couplet, which turns entirely on the identity of sound between chamor, a heap, and chamor, an ass, and the play of meaning between aleph, a thousand, and aleph, an ox. In the Hebrew the couplet runs:—

“Bi-lechi ha-chamor chamor chamorathaim.

Bi-lechi ha-chamor hikeyti eleph ish.”

Literally, with some attempt, however clumsy, to keep up the play of words,

“With jaw of the Ass, a (m)ass two (m)asses,

With jaw of the Ass I smote an ox-load of men.”