These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
Here is, I. Noah's family and employment. The names of his sons are again mentioned (Gen 9:18, Gen 9:19) as those from whom the whole earth was overspread, by which it appears that Noah, after the flood, had no more children: all the world came from these three.
Commenting on Genesis 9:18-23
These are the three sons of Noah,.... And his only ones; and if he had any more, they left no posterity behind them, since it follows: and of them was the whole earth overspread, with inhabitants, by them and their posterity only: Berozus (z) indeed says, that Noah, after the flood, begat more sons, and giants; and his commentator, Annius, talks of seventeen of them...
These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. (n) This declares what the virtue of God's blessing was, when he said, increase and bring forth in .