These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.

These three are the sons of Noah; and from these was the population of the whole earth spread abroad.

These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth covered.

These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.

These three are the sons of Noah. And from these all the family of mankind was spread over the whole earth.

Tres isti, filii Noah: et ab istis dispersa est universa terra.

These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth (n) overspread.
(n) This declares what the virtue of God's blessing was, when he said, increase and bring forth in (Genesis 1:28).

These are the three sons of Noah,.... And his only ones; and if he had any more, they left no posterity behind them, since it follows:
and of them was the whole earth overspread, with inhabitants, by them and their posterity only: Berozus (z) indeed says, that Noah, after the flood, begat more sons, and giants; and his commentator, Annius, talks of seventeen of them, among whom was Tuiscon, the father of the Germans; and the author of Juchasin (a) ascribes a fourth son to Noah, whose name he calls Joniko, who taught astronomy in the world, and taught Nimrod the art of war; but these are fabulous stories, and contrary to the sacred Scriptures, which speak of three sons of Noah, and no more, and say that by these the earth was replenished after the flood: hence, among the Heathen writers, we read of Saturn and his three children, who by many circumstances appears to be the same with Noah, as Bochart (b) hath proved at large.
(z) Antiqu. l. 2. fol. 13. 2. (a) Fol. 135. 1. (b) Phaleg. l. 1. c. 1.