Bible Verses About Origins of Nations

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

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

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

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

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.

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

The same was in the beginning with God.

Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.