‘These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.'
The descendants of Ham are seen mainly as the inhabitants of Canaan and Syria and nations to the South in Africa and Arabia. Yet, as we have seen, through Nimrod they have intermingled with peoples in Mesopotamia.
The description demonstrates that all aspects of peoples are covered. The families with whom they were identified, their languages, their countries, their nationhood.