Genesis
10
- This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth,
Noah's sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.
- The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai,
Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.
- The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath and
Togarmah.
- The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the
Kittim and the Rodanim.
- (From these the maritime peoples spread out
into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its
own language.)
- The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan.
- The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah,
Raamah and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
- Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to
be a mighty warrior on the earth.
- He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that
is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD."
- The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon,
Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar.
- From that land he went to Assyria, where
he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah
- and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah;
that is the great city.
- Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites,
Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
- Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines
came) and Caphtorites.
- Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn,
and of the Hittites,
- Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
- Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
- Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later
the Canaanite clans scattered
- and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon
toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim,
as far as Lasha.
- These are the sons of Ham by their clans
and languages, in their territories and nations.
- Sons were also born to Shem, whose older
brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.
- The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad,
Lud and Aram.
- The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshech.
- Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah
the father of Eber.
- Two sons were born to Eber: One was named
Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
- Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph,
Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
- Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
- Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
- Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were
sons of Joktan.
- The region where they lived stretched from
Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
- These are the sons of Shem by their clans
and languages, in their territories and nations.
- These are the clans of Noah's sons, according
to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread
out over the earth after the flood.
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