Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Adam was our common father in the flesh, Abraham the father of the faithful. The first broke covenant and made us all miserable; the second received the covenant of grace by which we may all be made happy. See to it that by faith you become seed of Abraham, grafted into the good olive, not branches of that wild olive we are by nature.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 1:1-27
Joktan begat Almodad - "He divided and measured the earth by lines. Sheleph; he assigned rivers to be boundaries. Hazarmaveth; he prepared a place of snares to kill by the highways. Jerah; he built inns, and when any person came to eat and drink, he gave him deadly poison, and so took his property." - T.
The Chronicler follows Genesis 10 but strips away the narrative details: no Babel, no Nimrod, no account of how these peoples spread. The variants you see, תּבּת for תּוּבל, דּיפת for ריפת, רודנים for דּדנים, are partly spelling shifts, partly scribal errors, partly phonetic drift. He assumes his readers already know from Genesis how these names relate to one another, so he omits the connective words.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 1:5-23