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Bible in Basic English

From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.

New American Standard Bible

From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

King James Version

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

Holman Bible

The coastland peoples spread out into their lands. These are Japheth’s sons by their clans, in their nations. Each group had its own language.

International Standard Version

from whom the coastal nations spread into their own lands and nations, each with their own language and family groups.

A Conservative Version

From these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, every man according to his tongue, according to their families, in their nations.

American Standard Version

Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

Amplified

From these, [the people of] the coastlands of the nations were separated and spread into their lands, every one according to his own language, according to their constituent groups (families), and into their nations:

Darby Translation

From these came the distribution of the isles of the nations, according to their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

Julia Smith Translation

By these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands; a man according to his tongue, according to their tribe, in their nations

King James 2000

By these were the coastlands of the nations divided in their lands; everyone after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

Lexham Expanded Bible

From these the coastland peoples spread out through their lands, each according to his own language by their own families, in their nations.

Modern King James verseion

By these were the coasts of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Of these came the Isles of the gentiles in their countries, every man in his speech, kindred and nation.

NET Bible

From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.

New Heart English Bible

Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

The Emphasized Bible

From these, were dispersed the inhabitants of the coastlands of the nations, in their lands, each man by his tongue, by their families in their nations.

Webster

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

World English Bible

Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

Youngs Literal Translation

By these have the isles of the nations been parted in their lands, each by his tongue, by their families, in their nations.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
By these were the isles
אי 
'iy 
Usage: 36

of the Gentiles
גּי גּוי 
Gowy 
Usage: 558

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

לשׁנה לשׁן לשׁון 
Lashown 
Usage: 116

משׁפּחה 
Mishpachah 
Usage: 303

Context Readings

Descendants Of Japheth

4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim. 5 From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages. 6 And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.



Cross References

Genesis 10:20

All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.

Jeremiah 2:10

For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see; send to Kedar and give deep thought to it; and see if there has ever been such a thing.

Jeremiah 25:22

And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the lands across the sea;

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.

Genesis 10:25

And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.

Genesis 11:1-9

And all the earth had one language and one tongue.

Psalm 72:10

Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands come back with offerings; let the kings of Sheba and Seba give of their stores.

Isaiah 24:15

Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.

Isaiah 40:15

See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.

Isaiah 41:5

The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near.

Isaiah 42:4

His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.

Isaiah 42:10

Make a new song to the Lord, and let his praise be sounded from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and everything in it, the sea-lands and their people.

Isaiah 49:1

Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:

Isaiah 51:5

Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation will be shining out like the light; the sea-lands will be waiting for me, and they will put their hope in my strong arm.

Isaiah 59:18

He will give them the right reward of their doings, wrath to his attackers, punishment to his haters, and even on the sea-lands he will send punishment.

Isaiah 60:9

Vessels of the sea-lands are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, so that your sons may come from far, and their silver and gold with them, to the place of the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.

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