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GENESIS 10
Know, Grow, and Go
God’s Great Plan
Read Genesis 8:15–9:17.
When the world’s people became so evil
they couldn’t even think about anything
else, God was deeply hurt (Genesis 6:6).
He could have walked away forever.
Instead, God blessed Noah, his family,
and the animals with a new beginning. Yet even as God painted that first
rainbow, he knew people would do evil
things again. God already had a solution
though—not to destroy the world,
but to save his people forever. Noah’s
story points toward the New Testament, when Jesus would come to rescue
people from sin! The next time you see a
rainbow, thank God for his great plan.
27 May God expand the territory of
Japheth!
May Japheth share the prosperity
of Shem,
and may Canaan be his servant.”
28Noah lived another 350 years after
the great flood. 29He lived 950 years, and
then he died.
This is the account of the
10 families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the three sons of Noah. Many
children were born to them after the
great flood.
Descendants of Japheth
2The descendants of Japheth were
Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal,
Meshech, and Tiras.
3The descendants of Gomer were
Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4The descendants of Javan were
Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and
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Rodanim. 5Their descendants
became the seafaring peoples that
spread out to various lands, each
identified by its own language, clan,
and national identity.
Descendants of Ham
6The descendants of Ham were Cush,
Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
7The descendants of Cush were Seba,
Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and
Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah
were Sheba and Dedan.
8Cush was also the ancestor of
Nimrod, who was the first heroic
warrior on earth. 9Since he was
the greatest hunter in the world,
his name became proverbial.
People would say, “This man is like
Nimrod, the greatest hunter in the
world.” 10He built his kingdom in
the land of Babylonia, with the
cities of Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and
Calneh. 11From there he expanded
his territory to Assyria, building
the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir,
Calah, 12and Resen (the great city
located between Nineveh and
Calah).
13Mizraim was the ancestor of the
Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites,
Naphtuhites, 14Pathrusites,
Casluhites, and the Caphtorites,
from whom the Philistines came.
15Canaan’s oldest son was Sidon,
the ancestor of the Sidonians.
Canaan was also the ancestor of
the Hittites, 16Jebusites, Amorites,
Girgashites, 17Hivites, Arkites,
Sinites, 18Arvadites, Zemarites, and
Hamathites. The Canaanite clans
eventually spread out, 19and the
territory of Canaan extended from
Sidon in the north to Gerar and
Gaza in the south, and east as far
as Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and
Zeboiim, near Lasha.
20These were the descendants of Ham,
identified by clan, language, territory,
and national identity.
