Genesis 9:18-19
"Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated."

The key Hebrew word for semen is zera (זֶרַע), which means "seed." Which is used for the seed a farmer sows, and also to refer to a man’s semen (Leviticus 15:16–18). Likewise this terms refers to offspring or descendants. So, in the ordinary way Scripture speaks, the man provides the seed; the woman receives it, conceives, and bears children. Lineage and population are therefore traced through the male line. This is the agricultural metaphor the Bible consistently uses. Seed is sown into the ground; the ground nurtures what is sown and brings forth fruit.

The same picture is applied to human generation. The predominant picture in the text is therefore monogenetic in its emphasis. As far as God's word is concerned the life-bearing seed comes from the man.

This understanding has far reaching implications. Take for instance the advent of Jesus Christ. Our Lord Jesus was conceived in a virgin womb. Not a sinless womb, as many Roman Catholic people believe. For Mary to have been born sinless by this idea her mother and every prior generation before them, right on down to the first in her lineage, would have to have been born sinless. And we know that this certainly is not the case. And we see here, and throughout scripture, that the "seed" which carries with it the "curse" comes through the male line. And therefore, in order that Jesus should be born sinless, he is not relying upon his mother's contribution. The only concern for a virgin sinless birth is that the father should be sinless. This is why Jesus is born without the curse, because his Father (The Spirit) caused him to be born into Mary's womb. Her womb's inheritance of sin is therefore irrelevant.

So, our understanding of the language has a direct bearing on the manner of Christ’s conception. And helps us to appreciate how God has changed the world through His Son, our eternal Lord. And the New Testament backs this up. Romans 5:12–19 locates the entrance of sin and death in "one man," Adam, and contrasts him with the one Man, Christ. The male line carries the curse. The absence of ordinary human generation from a human father under Adam’s headship is therefore essential to the account of how the last Adam [Jesus] is not born under the guilt and corruption that belong to ordinary generation. Even Mary herself affirms this understanding, acknowledging the need of a Savior (Luke 1:47).

Yes, Jesus truly took human nature from Mary's contribution; and the Holy Spirit’s agency in the conception ensured that this human nature was not conceived under the conditions of ordinary generation from Adam. The result is a Savior who is fully human, of the line of David through Mary, yet without personal sin and without the guilt of original sin passed down from Shem, Ham, or Japheth.

This understanding is consistent with our theology in that so called "federal headship" or imputation comes through Adam's curse and is the primary ground of condemnation. But this is more than biology. The decisive reason we are guilty in Adam is not merely that a physical substance passed from him, but that God appointed him as our covenant head. The physical means is how that federal relationship is realized in history. This is why just as we are condemned in Adam by ordinary generation, we are justified in Christ by a new federal relationship that does not depend on ordinary generation. The man provides the zera, the woman receives it, and brings forth a human child who carries the blood of life and the curse. So, Genesis 9:18–19 simply states the ordinary pattern of human generation after the flood. The whole earth is populated from Noah’s three sons.

And from them we see the development of what's referred to as the "table of nations."

The ordinary pattern of human generation through the male seed is what fills the earth after the flood; the same pattern is what Genesis 10 then traces in detail. This is a horizontal genealogy. It deliberately lists peoples, clans, and lands rather than a single line of succession.

Genesis 10:32
"from these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood."

The sons are introduced in the order Shem, Ham, and Japheth (10:1), but the list itself proceeds in reverse. Japheth first, then Ham, then Shem last. This places the line that will lead to Abraham and Israel at the climax. And from that line ultimately comes Christ Jesus. So this whole message zeroes in on Shem's line even while surveying the broader family of nations.

Now, the sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. Gomer was more or less the father of the ancient Cimmerians (Assyrian). A northern people originally associated with the region north of the Black Sea who later moved into Asia Minor. Gomer's sons fathered the Medes, the Scythians, the Greeks of Asia Minor, the Mushki, and the Etruscan Thracians.

So we see that the northern, eastern European, Anatolian, and related Asian peoples of the ancient world are traced in the Table to Japheth’s line.

Now the sons of Ham, basically went south into the areas of Africa. Cush is associated with the region of Nubia and ancient Ethiopia (the upper Nile south of Egypt). Mizraim is the Hebrew name for Egypt. Put is generally identified with Libya or the region of North Africa west of Egypt. Canaan, however, is the exception: his descendants settled in the land of Canaan itself (the Levant, from Sidon southward toward Gaza and the Dead Sea). Through Cush also came Nimrod, whose kingdom began in the land of Shinar (Babylon) and extended into Assyria, so a branch of Ham’s line is linked with early Mesopotamian cities as well. Some traditional thinking links Sinite with the "land of Sinim" as seen in Isaiah 49:12. Some speculate and identify Sinim with China on the basis of the name Sinae. And it is interesting (just as an aside) that the Chinese people are still referred to with the prefix "Sino". And you'll read of the Sino/Japanese war for instance. And many Chinese names beginning with "Sin".

Genesis 10:22-23; 10:32
"The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash."

"These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their descendants, by their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood."

In conclusion to this commentary, what's notable (not held in the scripture narrative), is that there was just a few short generations from Noah that ultimately led to the establishment of the roots of the Babylonian traditions through Nimrod (from the line of Ham), traditions that would later become a primary vehicle of opposition to the people and purposes of God. Traditions that would become the primary tool of Satan's in perverting God's church.

Traditional practices such as Easter and a mother-and-child cult; and its association with Nimrod's mother Semiramis being one particularly interesting example. Semiramis' son Tammuz is presented as a slain-and-resurrected figure, the prototype of dying-and-rising gods across many cultures (Osiris, Adonis, Bacchus, etc).

Other examples:
Christmas (linked to winter solstice and Nimrod/Tammuz’s birth around December 25). Again Easter (claimed to derive from Ishtar/Astarte, with eggs and other elements from Babylonian fertility rites). And Marian devotion is equated by some with the worship of Semiramis/Ishtar/Isis as the "Queen of Heaven."

These links to Babylonian influence within the church has become a concern for many and have led to the idea of "baptized paganism" and a "Babylon = Rome" reading of Revelation.

Note: A direct connection to Babylonian influence remains unclear.

But it would explain a lot.

Amen 🙏🏼