Genesis 10:31-32 - Exposition

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 Genesis 10:5 ); 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.