Genesis 10
1 These are the descendants of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5 From these the coastlands of the nations were divided among their lands, each according to its language, its clans, and its nations.
6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to become a mighty man.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”
10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 From that land Asshur went out and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah.
12 He also built Resen, between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
13 Mizraim fathered the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, and the Naphtuhites,
14 the Pathrusites, the Casluhites, from whom the Philistines came, and the Caphtorites.
15 Canaan fathered Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,
16 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, and the Girgashites,
17 the Hivites, the Arkites, and the Sinites,
18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites spread out.
19 The territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham, according to their clans and languages, in their lands and nations.
21 Sons were also born to Shem. He was the father of all the sons of Eber and the older brother of Japheth.
22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
24 Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.
25 Two sons were born to Eber: one was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.
26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
27 Hadoram, Uzal, and Diklah,
28 Obal, Abimael, and Sheba,
29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
30 Their dwelling stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, the hill country of the east.
31 These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans and languages, in their lands and nations.
32 These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their descendants and nations. From them the nations spread across the earth after the flood.
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