| 1 | This is the history of the generations (descendants) of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The sons born to them after the flood
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| 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 coastland peoples spread. [These are the sons of Japheth] in their lands, each with his own language, by their families within their nations. |
| 6 | The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt [Mizraim], Put, and Canaan. |
| 7 | The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. |
| 8 | Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first to be a mighty man on the earth. |
| 9 | He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord. |
| 10 | The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [in Babylonia]. |
| 11 | Out of the land he [Nimrod] went forth into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, |
| 12 | And Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; all these [suburbs combined to form] the great city. |
| 13 | And Egypt [Mizraim] became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, |
| 14 | Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines), and Caphtorim. |
| 15 | Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth [the Hittites], |
| 16 | The Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, |
| 17 | The Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, |
| 18 | The Arvadites, the Zemarites and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites spread abroad |
| 19 | And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon as one goes to Gerar as far as Gaza, and as one goes to
[a]Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. |
| 20 | These are the sons of Ham by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations. |
| 21 | To Shem also, the younger brother of Japheth and the ancestor of all the children of Eber [including the Hebrews], children were born. |
| 22 | The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. |
| 23 | The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. |
| 24 | Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber. |
| 25 | To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg [division], because [the inhabitants of] the earth were divided up in his days; and his brother’s name was Joktan. |
| 26 | Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, |
| 27 | Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, |
| 28 | Obal, Abimael, Sheba, |
| 29 | Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan. |
| 30 | The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha as one goes toward Sephar to the hill country of the east. |
| 31 | These are Shem’s descendants by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations. |
| 32 | These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, within their nations; and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood. |
Cross references:
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Genesis 10:32 : Acts 17:26.
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