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Genesis 10

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1ASV

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, namely, of Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

2ASV

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

3ASV

And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

4ASV

And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

5ASV

Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

6ASV

And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

7ASV

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

8ASV

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

9ASV

He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah: wherefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah.

10ASV

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

11ASV

Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,

12ASV

and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).

13ASV

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

14ASV

and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (whence went forth the Philistines), and Caphtorim.

15ASV

And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth,

16ASV

and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

17ASV

and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

18ASV

and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.

19ASV

And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha.

20ASV

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.

21ASV

And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.

22ASV

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

23ASV

And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

24ASV

And Arpachshad begat Shelah; and Shelah begat Eber.

25ASV

And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

26ASV

And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

27ASV

and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

28ASV

and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

29ASV

and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

30ASV

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

31ASV

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

32ASV

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.