Genesis 10:1

וְאֵלֶּה תּוֹלְדֹת בְּנֵי־נֹחַ שֵׁם חָם וָיָפֶת וַיִּוָּלְדוּ לָהֶם בָּנִים אַחַר הַמַּבּֽוּל׃

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Hebrew

וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ תּוֹלְדֹ֣ת בְּנֵי־נֹ֔חַ שֵׁ֖ם חָ֣ם וָיָ֑פֶת וַיִּוָּלְד֥וּ לָהֶ֛ם בָּנִ֖ים אַחַ֥ר הַמַּבּֽוּל׃

Greek (Septuagint)

Αὗται δὲ αἱ γενέσεις τῶν υἱῶν Νῶε, Σῆμ’, Χάμ, ’σαν αὐτοῖς υἱοὶ μετὰ τὸν κατακλυσμόν.

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

Hæ sunt generationes filiorum Noë, Sem, Cham et Japheth: natique sunt eis filii post diluvium.

Spanish

Éstos son los descendientes de Sem, Cam y Jafet, los hijos de Noé, que tuvieron hijos después del diluvio.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

ESTAS son las generaciones de los hijos de Noé: Sem, Châm y Japhet, á los cuales nacieron hijos después del diluvio.

English

This is the account of Noah ’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood. The Japhethites

✦ What the text says

Summary

Genesis 10:1 introduces the genealogical section concerning Noah's sons by naming tol.Dot ("accounts/generations", H8435) of be.nei-No.ach ("sons of Noah", H1121A/H5146): Shem, Ham, and Japheth. It states that sons were born to them after the flood, using a niphal passive verb form.

Key words

tol.Dot ("[the] accounts of", H8435) — feminine plural construct noun, introducing a genealogical unit; it governs the following construct chain "sons of Noah."
be.nei- ("[the] sons of", H1121A) — masculine plural construct, linking Noah to his offspring; construct state requires a following genitive (here No.ach).
yi.val.Du ("they were born", H3205) — niphal (passive/reflexive) verb with narrative vav, indicating the sons "were born" rather than an active agent bearing them; the narrative vav (item 10, H9001) sequences this clause as continuing the story.
a.Char ("after", H0310A) — construct form functioning as a temporal preposition, placing the births in time relative to ha.ma.Bul ("the flood", H3999).
la.Hem ("to them", H9005+H9038) — preposition with third-person masculine plural suffix, marking the dative recipients of the passive verb yi.val.Du.

What the text says

The verse opens with the demonstrative 'E.leh ("these", H0428) followed by the construct noun tol.Dot ("accounts of", H8435), a formula that in Biblical Hebrew typically introduces a new genealogical or narrative section. The construct chain tol.Dot be.nei-No.ach ("the accounts of the sons of Noah") sets Shem, Ham, and Japheth in apposition as the three named sons, each linked by the conjunction ve/va (H9002).

The second clause shifts to narrative sequence via va-yi.val.Du ("and they were born", H3205), a niphal form. The niphal stem here expresses the sons being born rather than any explicit subject begetting them, foregrounding the recipients marked by la.Hem ("to them", H9038) rather than an agent. The temporal phrase a.Char ha.ma.Bul ("after the flood", H0310A + H3999) closes the verse, anchoring the births chronologically after the flood narrative that precedes this chapter.

Differences between versions

The Vulgate (VULCLEM) and RV1909 explicitly list all three sons — Sem, Cham, and Japheth — matching the Hebrew's three names. The LXXSWETE text as given shows only "Σῆμ, Χάμ" with an incomplete verb form ("’σαν," likely ἦσαν) and no separate mention of Japheth's name in the provided transcription, differing from the Hebrew's explicit three-part list Shem, Cham, va-Yafet. The BSB and SBLIBRE both render tol.Dot as "account"/"descendants" respectively, showing translational variation in how the construct noun H8435 is handled in English/Spanish.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.