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GENESIS 10
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24When Noah woke up from his stupor, he learned
what Ham, his youngest son, had done. 25 Then he
cursed Canaan, the son of Ham:
“May Canaan be cursed!
May he be the lowest of servants to his
relatives.”
26Then Noah said,
“May the Lord, the God of Shem, be blessed,
and may Canaan be his servant!
27 May God expand the territory of Japheth!
May Japheth share the prosperity of Shem,*
and may Canaan be his servant.”
28 Noah lived another 350 years after the great
flood. 29He lived 950 years, and then he died.
22The descendants of Shem were Elam, Asshur,
Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
23The descendants of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether,
and Mash.
24Arphaxad was the father of Shelah,* and Shelah
was the father of Eber.
25Eber had two sons. The first was named Peleg
(which means “division”), for during his lifetime the people of the world were divided into
different language groups. His brother’s name
was Joktan.
26Joktan was the ancestor of Almodad, Sheleph,
Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
28Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29Ophir, Havilah, and
Jobab. All these were descendants of Joktan.
30The territory they occupied extended from
This is the account of the families of Shem,
Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern
Ham, and Japheth, the three sons of Noah.
mountains.
Many children were born to them after the great 31
These were the descendants of Shem, identified
flood.
by clan, language, territory, and national identity.
Descendants of Japheth
Conclusion
2The descendants of Japheth were Gomer, Magog,
32 These are the clans that descended from Noah’s
Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
sons, arranged by nation according to their lines
3The descendants of Gomer were Ashkenaz,
of descent. All the nations of the earth descended
Riphath, and Togarmah.
from these clans after the great flood.
4The descendants of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.* 5Their descendants The Tower of Babel
became the seafaring peoples that spread out
At one time all the people of the world spoke
to various lands, each identified by its own
the same language and used the same words.
2 As the people migrated to the east, they found a
language, clan, and national identity.
plain
in the land of Babylonia* and settled there.
Descendants of Ham
3 They began saying to each other, “Let’s make
6The descendants of Ham were Cush, Mizraim,
bricks and harden them with fire.” (In this region
Put, and Canaan.
bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used
7The descendants of Cush were Seba, Havilah,
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Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants for mortar.) Then they said, “Come, let’s build a
great
city for ourselves with a tower that reaches
of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us
8Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, who
being scattered all over the world.”
was the first heroic warrior on earth. 9Since he from
5 But the Lord came down to look at the city and
was the greatest hunter in the world,* his name
the
tower
the people were building. 6 “Look!” he
became proverbial. People would say, “This
said. “The people are united, and they all speak the
man is like Nimrod, the greatest hunter in the
same language. After this, nothing they set out to do
world.” 10He built his kingdom in the land of
will be impossible for them! 7 Come, let’s go down
Babylonia,* with the cities of Babylon, Erech,
and confuse the people with different languages.
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Akkad, and Calneh. From there he expanded
Then they won’t be able to understand each other.”
his territory to Assyria,* building the cities of
8 In that way, the Lord scattered them all over
Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah, 12and Resen (the
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great city located between Nineveh and Calah). the world, and they stopped building the city. That
is why the city was called Babel,* because that is
13Mizraim was the ancestor of the Ludites,
where the Lord confused the people with different
Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, 14Pathlanguages. In this way he scattered them all over
rusites, Casluhites, and the Caphtorites, from
the world.
whom the Philistines came.*
15Canaan’s oldest son was Sidon, the ancestor of
The Line of Descent from Shem to Abram
the Sidonians. Canaan was also the ancestor of 10This is the account of Shem’s family.
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the Hittites,* Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Two years after the great flood, when Shem
17Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, 18Arvadites,
was 100 years old, he became the father of*
Zemarites, and Hamathites. The Canaanite
Arphaxad. 11After the birth of* Arphaxad, Shem
clans eventually spread out, 19and the territory
lived another 500 years and had other sons and
of Canaan extended from Sidon in the north to
daughters.
Gerar and Gaza in the south, and east as far as 12When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became
Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, near
the father of Shelah. 13After the birth of Shelah,
Lasha.
Arphaxad lived another 403 years and had
20 These were the descendants of Ham, identified
other sons and daughters.*
by clan, language, territory, and national identity. 14
When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the
father of Eber. 15After the birth of Eber, Shelah
Descendants of Shem
21Sons were also born to Shem, the older brother
lived another 403 years and had other sons and
daughters.
of Japheth.* Shem was the ancestor of all the
16When Eber was 34 years old, he became the
descendants of Eber.
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