10:6 The sons of Ham were Cush, 5 Mizraim, 6 Put, 7 and Canaan. 8
35:24 The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
36:27 These were the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
36:28 These were the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
1 sn The descendants of Gomer were all northern tribes of the Upper Euphrates.
2 sn Askenaz was the ancestor of a northern branch of Indo-Germanic tribes, possibly Scythians. For discussion see E. M. Yamauchi, Foes from the Northern Frontier (SBA), 63.
3 sn The descendants of Riphath lived in a district north of the road from Haran to Carchemish.
4 sn Togarmah is also mentioned in Ezek 38:6, where it refers to Til-garimmu, the capital of Kammanu, which bordered Tabal in eastern Turkey. See E. M. Yamauchi, Foes from the Northern Frontier (SBA), 26, n. 28.
5 sn The descendants of Cush settled in Nubia (Ethiopia).
6 sn The descendants of Mizraim settled in Upper and Lower Egypt.
7 sn The descendants of Put settled in Libya.
8 sn The descendants of Canaan lived in the region of Phoenicia (Palestine).
9 tc The MT reads “Mash”; the LXX and 1 Chr 1:17 read “Meshech.”
sn Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. Little is known about these descendants of Aram.
10 sn Ophir became the name of a territory in South Arabia. Many of the references to Ophir are connected with gold (e.g., 1 Kgs 9:28, 10:11, 22:48; 1 Chr 29:4; 2 Chr 8:18, 9:10; Job 22:24, 28:16; Ps 45:9; Isa 13:12).
11 sn Havilah is listed with Ham in v. 7.