Genesis 9:19
These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tres isti filii sunt Noë : et ab his disseminatum est omne genus hominum super universam terram.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τρεῖς οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ υἱοὶ Νῶε· ἀπὸ τούτων διεσπάρησαν ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה אֵ֖לֶּה בְּנֵי נֹ֑חַ וּמֵאֵ֖לֶּה נָֽפְצָ֥ה כָל הָאָֽרֶץ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXIX
1. We have been born into this world, and added to the people of God, at that period wherein already the herb from a grain of mustard seed hath spread out its branches; wherein already the leaven, which at first was contemptible, hath leavened three measures, that is, the whole round world repeopled by the three sons of Noe: for from East and West and North and South shall come they that shall sit down with the Patriarchs, while those shall have been driven without, that have been born of their flesh and have not imitated their faith. …