GENEALOGY OF SHEM. 8l 



Intervals of time, and many generations of 

 men. The same impression must arise from 

 the condensed abstract given of the origin 

 and growth of communities capable of 

 building such cities as Resen and Calah 

 and Nineveh are described to be.* In the 

 genealogy of the family of Shem, we have 

 a list of names, which are names and nothing 

 more to us. It is a genealogy which neither 

 does, nor professes to do, more than to trace 

 the order of succession among a few families 

 only out of the millions then already existing 

 in the world. Nothing but this order of 

 succession is given, nor is it at all certain 

 that this order is consecutive or complete. 

 Nothing is told us of all that lay behind 



* Gen. X. II, 12. 

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