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Genesis

Nations Descended from Noah

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Chapter 10
1 These are the generations of Noah's sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. 2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 The sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim. 5 From these the islands of the nations were separated in their lands, each according to his language, their clans, and their nations. 6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan. 8 And Cush fathered Nimrod; he began to be a mighty man in the land. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. That is why people say, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD." 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went out to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah. 12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah—it, the great city. 13 And Egypt fathered the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, and the Naphtuhites. 14 and the Pathrusim and the Casluhim, from whom the Philistines went out, and the Caphtorim. 15 And Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth. 16 the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite 17 and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite 18 the Arudite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite dispersed. 19 And the boundary of the Canaanite was from Sidon, coming toward Gerar as far as Gaza; coming toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboyim as far as Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, according to their clans, according to their languages, in their lands, in their nations. 21 And Shem also he bore, he the father of all the sons of Eber, brother of Japheth the great. 22 The sons of Shem: Elam and Assyria and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram. 23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24 And Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber. 25 And two sons were born to Eber: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the land was divided, and the name of his brother was Joktan. 26 Joktan fathered Elmodad, Saleph, Hazarmaveth, and Jerah. 27 and Dorians, Uzal, and Diklah. 28 And Obal and Abimael and Sheba. 29 And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Peleg. 30 And their dwelling was from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations. 32 These were the families of Noah's sons, according to their generations, in their nations. From these the nations separated in the earth after the flood.