Genesis 10

It's nice to see someone actually obey God every now and then.  Twice in Genesis 9 God told Noah to be fruitful and multiply, and in Genesis 10 we see that he -- and everyone else, apparently -- took that one to heart.

Genesis 10 is either a genealogy or an ancient geography book, or perhaps both.  It's honestly a little confusing to me whether the names listed are of individual people or of nations, or again both.  After all, "Egypt" may have been the son of Ham and the nation founded by that son.  It's another of those areas in which a modern desire for journalistic exactness runs smack up against the fact that author of Genesis and the Spirit who inspired him weren't particularly concerned with my desires as a 21st-century reader.

Moses is the most likely author of Genesis, and his focus probably wasn't on crafting a timeless narrative.  He was writing to tell the newly-freed Hebrews where they came from and where they were going.  The "missing" details in Genesis aren't missing at all, just unnecessary to the task at hand.  That's one reason it's so important for modern readers of the Bible to try to learn as much as possible about the historical and cultural context of the Scriptures; it helps to keep us from expecting what the text just doesn't intend to provide.