Generations of Noah
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The Generations of Noah, also called the Table of Nations or Origines Gentium, is a genealogy of the sons of Noah, according to the Hebrew Bible, and their dispersion into many lands after the Flood,
Noah dividing the world between his sons. Anonymous painter; Russian Empire, 18th century.
Shem
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Shem is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible.
Generations of Noah
…The list of 70 names introduces for the first time several well-known ethnonyms and toponyms important to biblical geography, such as Noah's three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from which 18th-century German scholars at the Göttingen school of history derived the race terminology Semites, Hamites, and…
Portrait from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum (1553) by Guillaume Rouillé