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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

(Ge 10:5): the American Standard Revised Version "isles (margin "coast-lands") of the nations," said of the territories of the sons of Japheth. The reference is to the coasts of the Western Mediterranean, with their islands (compare "isles of the sea," Es 10:1; Eze 26:18, etc.).

See TABLE OF NATIONS.