Genesis 10:1-32
Genesis 10 is the divine census taken before the rescue operation begins. The Table lists exactly 70 nations (14 Japheth + 30 Ham + 26 Shem) — the same 70 Deuteronomy 32:8 places under angelic stewardship (DSS bene Elohim), the same four-noun vocabulary (mishpachah + lashon + eretz + goy) Revelation 5:9 and 7:9 use for the eschatological gathering before the Lamb, and the same Shinar that opens here (Gen 10:10) where wickedness returns home in Zechariah 5:11. The article walks the seventy names verbatim, traces the gibbor link from Nephilim to Nimrod, and shows Acts 2 reversing Gen 10's lashon dispersion rather than Gen 11's saphah confusion.
Genesis 9:8-29
Genesis 9:8-29 is the canonical first iteration of the covenant-sign formula and the textbook test case of how the Hebrew lexicon resists training-data overlay. H7198 qeshet is a weapon-bow (76 OT uses, 94.7% war or hunting bow) — God hangs his weapon in the cloud, and the bow-in-cloud functions as the covenant's visible guarantee. The Ham-saw question turns on a lexical distinction the lexicon makes plain (ra'ah ervah vs galah ervah), and the curse at Gen 9:25 falls on Canaan, not Ham — MT, SP, and LXX all agree on the curse-recipient.