After reading chapter 10:
* It is physically impossible for all the people on earth today to have come from only 3 couples 4,000 years ago. Modern genetics tells us there has never been a population of less than 10,000 people on earth. It also tells us that humans probably originated in Africa, not the Middle East.
*Many of the civilizations listed in this chapter existed long before the flood date of 2,350 B.C.E. , according to Ussher's chronology. The area covered does not include civilizations in India and across the vast land mass of Asia.
*Apparently Ham had other sons besides Canaan, but Canaan bore the brunt of the curse of slavery. Why?
*In verse 21 we find out that Shem, the traditional ancestor of all Semites was the Younger Brother of Japheth.
*It is worth noting that there are animals all over the world that are peculiar to their own part of the earth with no trace of them ever having lived in, or migrated from, the Middle East. Kangaroos and koalas are a couple of the most well known ones.
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