Beth-El Baptist Church

Bible Search Class

Question: Where do the races come from?

Answer: Genesis 9, 10

Description: Basic Root Noah

KJV Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Derivative Root: Shem, Ham, and Japheth

KJV Genesis 10:1 now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

Sub-derivative Roots Shem (Sem-Hebrew)

ü Boarded the ark with His mother and Father

and his brothers and their wives. Gen 7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark.

ü He disembarked with them after the flood.

^GOB Genesis 9:18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth-Ham being the father of Canaan.

ü Therefore the population of the World is

divided into three groups:

1. The descendants of Shem

2. The descendants of Ham

3. The descendants of Japheth

Geographical Locations:

I. The Descendants of Shem

1. Elam (Gen 10:22)

a. Territory: The country is partly hidden in the southern Zagros Mountains East of the Tigris. The center of Elam is the area known today as the plain of Khuzistan in South Western Iran. The ancient capital city of SUSA lay beside a branch of the Karkho, the Shaur, in the center of the most fertile area.

b. Writing and Language:

Tablets from SUSA show that a local pictographic script was widely used and

about 2900 BC –writings on a form of a text were found.

The Elamite language has no known relation. It is found among the people who received the gospel in Acts 2.

^GOB Acts 2:9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; people from Mesopotamia, Judaea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

c. Religion:

Lack of source material prevents the analysis of any but the official or royal cult; mother goddess’s figurines are the only representatives of “popular” religion.