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1. Cush - the Ethiopians
2. Mizraim – the Egyptians
3. Phut - the Libyans
4. Canaan – the Canaanites

Japheth was Noah’s youngest son. All his descendants settled north of Mesopotamia. He and his wife
had seven sons which became seven nations:

1. Gomer – The Cimmerians settled north of the Black Sea (Germany, France, Spain, British Isles)
2. Magog – the Scythians living north of the Caspian Sea.
3. Madai – the Medes who settled south of the Caspian Sea
4. Javan – the Greeks
5. Tubal – the Turks who lived south of the Black Sea
6. Meshech (The Slavs) lived between the Black and Caspian Seas

Here is a map showing how all the families of
Shem, Ham and Japheth spread out into Europe,
Asia, and Africa after Babel. (The Etruscans)
located west of the Black Sea.
So the question is often asked, where did all the
races come from? The answer is a bit
complicated, but let’s see if we can understand
where they came from Biology. When God
created Adam, he put within his chromosomes
the possibility of all the various skin colors in
recessive and dominant genes.

Skin shade is governed by multiple genes and is quite complex, but for the sake of simplicity, assume for
a moment that there are only two. Genes come in pairs of pairs. During reproduction, half of the genes
passed on to the offspring come from each parent. Let’s assign the letters “A” and “B” to the genes that
code for large amounts of melanin—the brown-colored pigment in everyone’s skin (this would be a
dominant gene). We’ll also use the letters “a” and “b” to designate the genes for small amounts of
melanin (This would be a recessive gene). In very dark-skinned people groups, individuals
carry AABB genes and only produce dark-skinned offspring. In very light-skinned people groups,
individuals carry aabb genes and only produce light-skinned offspring.

If a male and female from each group mate and produce a child, the
combination of their AABB and aabb genes would give rise to a child who
carries the AaBb genes for melanin and would be “middle brown” in skin
shade. Now, if two people carrying the AaBb genes got married and
reproduced, their children could have a wide range of skin colors. If Adam
and Eve were both middle brown (AaBb), they would have produced
children with a wide range of tones. Suddenly, all of us being
one race doesn’t seem so complicated. (information from Answers in
Genesis, https://answersingenesis.org/racism/adam-eve-all-skin-tones/)

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