Genesis 10:21 - Exposition

Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber ,—as Ham of Canaan ( Genesis 9:22 ; vide Genesis 9:24 )— the brother of Japheth the elder. Either the eldest brother of Japheth (Syriac, Arabic, Vulgate, Gesenius, Rosenmüller, Kalisch); or the brother of Japheth who was older ( LXX ; Symmachus, Onkelos, Raschi, Aben Ezra, Luther, Clerieus, Michaelis, Dathe); or the elder of Japheth's brothers, as distinguished from Ham the younger, i.e. the son who was older than Ham, But younger than Japheth (Murphy, Quarry; vide Genesis 5:32 ). Even to him were children born.