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Japheth

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(enlarged). Son of Noah (Gen. 5:32; 6:10; 9:27; 10:21³²And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Genesis 5:32)
¹⁰And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Genesis 6:10)
²⁷God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. (Genesis 9:27)
²¹Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. (Genesis 10:21)). His generations peopled the “isles of the Gentiles,” and type the Indo-European and Caucasian races (Gen. 10:1-5¹Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. ²The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. ³And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. ⁴And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. ⁵By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. (Genesis 10:1‑5)).

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