The Patriarchs of Babel

* It is likely that all these "grandsons" of Noah, the patriarchs of Babel, were alive and at Babel, with their rapidly multiplying offspring.....

Sons of Japheth:

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. Genesis 10:5

1) Gomer
2) Magog
3) Madai
4) Javan
5) Tubal
6) Mescech
7) Tiras

* We are told of the sons of only Gomer & Javan.
* Scholars believe that Japheth's descendants populated from the Caucasian races of Europe through central Asia & into the Indian sub-continent during the Aryan invasion. {Indo-European Language Family}
* It is believed that the Hellenes (Greeks) came specifically from Javan.
* Japheth's name is preserved in the Greek god "Iapetus", who

entered the Roman pantheon of gods as "Jupiter". Known as the "shining father", he was the supreme god of the sky and laws.
Also, as Pra-Japati of India, the creator god and life sustainer. Later in Hinduism he was morphed with Brahma & Shiva.

 Sons of Shem:

And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem;
Genesis 9:26

*Notice that the Messianic Line was to come through Shem. Now if it is true-the correct order of the sons of Noah was Japheth, Shem & Ham.....then Shem, the middle son, would have the Messianic Line through his middle son Arphaxad (which Abram descended from), hence you have the Messianic Line stemming from the center of the progeny of Noah. It all rotates around Christ....
1) Elam
2) Asshur
3) Arphaxad {Line of the MESSIAH}/(From the middle son of the middle son-the CENTER)
4) Lud
5) Aram

* These populated the middle east as far east as Iran and Afghanistan.

Sons of Ham:

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. Genesis 10:20

1) Cush
2) Mizraim
3) Put
4) Canaan

 * Some, such as the clan of Canaan, stayed in the middle east, others, like the clans of Cush, headed west into Africa. And others headed east and became the east Asians, Pacific Islanders & American Indians.
* It would appear that the small isolated clans (by languages assigned by God at the dispersion at Babel) of Ham had the most pockets of genetic variations which became fixed in the small clannish populations early on----when the so-called "races" were emerging due to dispersed groups having only subsets of the gene pool.
* Mizraim was Egypt.
* Sinim is thought to be the land of modern day China... Behold,

these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim...Isaiah 49:12. The Sinites were a family clan from the tribe of Canaan--And Canaan begat...and the Sinite, Genesis 10:15,17. [Chinese symbol for "boat" that survived the ages down to today - The symbol for boat is a combination of three symbols.  They are: vessel + eight + people.  So a boat is a vessel with eight people.  Noah’s ark had eight people on it.] * Sino-Tibetan Languages....
* Nimrod, leader of the post-flood rebellion, came from the line of Ham via the patriarch at Babel Cush---And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. Genesis 10:8.

These are the families of the sons of Noah,

after their generations, in their nations:

and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

Genesis 10:32

* P.S. - Japheth was actually the oldest---Unto Shem also, ...the brother of Japheth the elder,.... Genesis 10:21

Ham the youngest --- And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Noah awoke ....and knew what his younger son had done unto him. Genesis 9:22,24