Genesis 10

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This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.

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The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

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The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

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And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

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From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.

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The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

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The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

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Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

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He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

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His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

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and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.

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Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,

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the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.

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And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

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the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

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the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

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the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,

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and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

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These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

10:21

And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.

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The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

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The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

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Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

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Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.

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And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

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Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

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Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

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Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

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Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.

10:31

These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

10:32

All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.