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Genesis Chapter: 10

1: This is the family tree of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. After the flood, they themselves had sons.

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

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

4: The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, Rodanim.

5: The seafaring peoples developed from these, each in its own place by family, each with its own language.

6: The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, Canaan.

7: The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, Dedan.

8: Cush also had Nimrod. He was the first great warrior on Earth.

9: He was a great hunter before GOD. There was a saying, "Like Nimrod, a great hunter before GOD."

10: His kingdom got its start with Babel; then Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the country of Shinar.

11: From there he went up to Asshur and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

12: and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

13: Egypt was ancestor to the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, the Naphtuhim,

14: the Pathrusim, the Casluhim (the origin of the Philistines), and the Kaphtorim.

15: Canaan had Sidon his firstborn, Heth,

16: the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

17: the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

18: the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanites spread out,

19: going from Sidon toward Gerar, as far south as Gaza, and then east all the way over to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and on to Lasha.

20: These are the descendants of Ham by family, language, country, and nation.

21: Shem, the older brother of Japheth, also had sons. Shem was ancestor to all the children of Eber.

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

23: The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, Meshech.

24: Arphaxad had Shelah and Shelah had Eber.

25: Eber had two sons, Peleg (so named because in his days the human race divided) and Joktan.

26: Joktan had Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

27: Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

28: Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

29: Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab--all sons of Joktan.

30: Their land goes from Mesha toward Sephar as far as the mountain ranges in the east.

31: These are the descendants of Shem by family, language, country, and nation.

32: This is the family tree of the sons of Noah as they developed into nations. From them nations developed all across the Earth after the flood.

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