Genesis 10:15-17

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Genesis 10:15 tn Heb “fathered.”
2. Genesis 10:15 sn Sidon was the foremost city in Phoenicia; here Sidon may be the name of its founder.
3. Genesis 10:15 tn Some see a reference to “Hittites” here (cf. NIV), but this seems unlikely. See the note on the phrase “sons of Heth” in Gen 23:3.
4. Genesis 10:16 sn The Jebusites were the Canaanite inhabitants of ancient Jerusalem.
5. Genesis 10:16 sn Here Amorites refers to smaller groups of Canaanite inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Palestine, rather than the large waves of Amurru, or western Semites, who migrated to the region.
6. Genesis 10:16 sn The Girgashites are an otherwise unknown Canaanite tribe, though the name is possibly mentioned in Ugaritic texts (see G. J. Wenham, Genesis [WBC], 1:226).
7. Genesis 10:17 sn The Hivites were Canaanite tribes of a Hurrian origin.
8. Genesis 10:17 sn The Arkites lived in Arka, a city in Lebanon, north of Sidon.
9. Genesis 10:17 sn The Sinites lived in Sin, another town in Lebanon.