Genesis 10:31
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New International Version (©2011)
These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

New Living Translation (©2007)
These were the descendants of Shem, identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity.

English Standard Version (©2001)
These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, according to their nations.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
These are Shem's sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

International Standard Version (©2012)
These are Shem's descendants, listed by their families, each with their own lands, language, and family groups.

NET Bible (©2006)
These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
These were Shem's descendants by families and languages within their countries according to their nations.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

American King James Version
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

American Standard Version
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the children of Sem according to their kindreds and tongues, and countries in their nations.

Darby Bible Translation
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

English Revised Version
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

Webster's Bible Translation
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

World English Bible
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.

Young's Literal Translation
These are sons of Shem, by their families, by their tongues, in their lands, by their nations.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:15-32 The posterity of Canaan were numerous, rich, and pleasantly seated; yet Canaan was under a Divine curse, and not a curse causeless. Those that are under the curse of God, may, perhaps, thrive and prosper in this world; for we cannot know love or hatred, the blessing or the curse, by what is before us, but by what is within us. The curse of God always works really, and always terribly. Perhaps it is a secret curse, a curse to the soul, and does not work so that others can see it; or a slow curse, and does not work soon; but sinners are reserved by it for a day of wrath Canaan here has a better land than either Shem or Japheth, and yet they have a better lot, for they inherit the blessing. Abram and his seed, God's covenant people, descended from Eber, and from him were called Hebrews. How much better it is to be like Eber, the father of a family of saints and honest men, than the father of a family of hunters after power, worldly wealth, or vanities. Goodness is true greatness.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 31, 32. - These are the sons of Shorn, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. The pedigree of the Shemite tribes is closed with the customary formula (vide ver. 5); that which follows being the concluding formula for the entire table of nations. These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations (literally, according to their Tholdoth, or historical developments), in their nation,: and by these (literally, from the) were the nations divided (or, did the nations scatter themselves) in the earth after the flood.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

These are the sons of Shem,.... His sons, and grandsons, and great grandsons, in all twenty six, no doubt but there were many more, but these are only mentioned; for none of the sons of Elam, Ashur, and Lud, are named, and but one of Arphaxad's, and one of Salah's, and two of Eber's, and none of Peleg's; when it is not to be questioned but they had many, as is certain of Arphaxad, Salah, Eber, and Peleg, Genesis 11:13.

after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations: from hence sprung various families at first, and these of different languages upon the confusion of Babel, which thenceforward formed different nations, dwelt in different lands; which have been pointed at as near as we can at this distance, and with the little helps and advantages we have: it seems from hence that Shem's posterity were of different languages as well as those of Ham and Japheth.

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The Semites
…30And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go to Sephar a mount of the east. 31These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. 32These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

Genesis 10:30 The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
Genesis 10:32 These are the clans of Noah's sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.