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Introduction It appears that redactor combined Genesis 10 with J (vv 1b; 8-19; 21; 24-30) and P (vv 1a, 2-7;20; 22-23; 31-32). [1] Genesis 11.1-9 understood as another piece of redactor’s work which is attributed to J [2] and 11.10-26 to P. [3] P gives the history of nations in the form of genealogies without any geographical references and J presents history of nations with geographical references and notes about their history especially the empire of Nimrod in Gen 10.8b-12. [4] The summaries of P stress the word goy (10.5,20,31,32). [5] In Gen 10, the J’s table of nations starts from the conclusion to the Flood story (9.18-19). The table of the nations in Gen 10 begins with toledoth/genealogy formula: the genealogies of Noah. [6] Nations in Genesis 10 and 11 The nations are traced its origins from the three sons of Noah (Gen 10.1). Nations from Japheth (10.2-5) Here the genealogies serve to describe about the nations. Seven sons/nations descended from Japheth. Fr