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Genesis chapter 10 verse 32

these are the clans of the sons of Noah

according to their genealogies in their nations.

And from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

So this verse comes at the end of a long chapter known as the generations of Noah or the table of nations.

And when you hear nations there, don't think countries, like 200 or so countries in the United Nations today.

No, what we see in scripture is humanity, people as a whole, divided into people groups, subgroups, ethnic groups, and there's

different words we see in both the Old Testament, the New Testament, to describe these people groups.

Sometimes you see nations, sometimes tribes, clans, families, peoples, languages, even, so this is why we use terms like people groups today.

It's our best effort to look at the world today and say all right here's distinct

Ethnolinguistic groups groups groups that share common languages common

Cultural characteristics and this is why when we think about the world we don't just need to think about 200 or so countries.

Instead, we need to think about people groups, tribes, languages like the Bible talks about these things. Now we don't know for sure that we have the best

classification for people groups. It's our best attempts to do so, but some identify over 11,000 people groups in the world, some identify over 16,000 people groups in the world,

some identify over 16,000 people groups,

it kind of depends on where you distinguish

one group from another, but many more than 200.

And this is why we pray continually for the gospel to go to every

single people group because that's the word that Jesus uses in Matthew

chapter 28 verse 19 when he says go and make

disciples of all the nations he's not saying countries there he's saying ethnic

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