Genesis 10:20Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Thirty generations from Ham are counted, including him, while excluding the Philistines and the Cappadocians who later descended from them.

Ham inherited the southern regions, which include Egypt, Ethiopia, neighboring India, and another area known as Ethiopia, from which flows the Ethiopian Red River to the east. His territories also encompass Thebes, Libya, nearby Cyrene, Marmaria, Sirte, another Libya, Numidia, Masuria, and Mauritania, facing Gadir. In the eastern part of his domain are Cilicnia, Pamphylia, Pisidia, Mysia, Lycaonia, Phrygia, Kamalia, Lycia, Caria, Lydia, another Mysia, Troas, Aeolis, Bithynia, Old Phrygia, as well as the islands of Sardinia, Crete, Cyprus, and the river Geona, commonly referred to as the Nile.

In concluding the genealogy, the author clarifies that this is not merely a register of the direct offspring of the Khamovs. Instead, it identifies only those individuals whose names evolved into designations for tribes, languages, regions, and nations.