Follow Up Question

Did This Last 2000 Years or Only 410 Years? · Follow Up Question

Table of Nations in Genesis 10 was before the reduction of male Y chromosome lines.

So, there were more lines in the time of Table of Nations than there are now.

There are these possibilities:

• we no longer have all the male lines from Table of Nations, they were mostly lost through this reduction;
• most losses were within single ones of the 72 nations, so, each first branched out and then, in male lines, reduced;
• or Table of Nations was originally more numerous, but got updated through remaining lines, probably reducing some groups to "group mentions" (Dodanim could be one such, but so would Mitsraim, Capthorim and Philistim be).

I'm not sure which, while I can't exclude the first one, I tend to imagine the last./HGL