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10:1  This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their descendants. Shem, Ham and Japheth had children after the flood.
10:2  Japheth's descendants were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
10:3  Gomer's descendants were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
10:4  Javan's descendants were the people from Elishah, Tarshish, Cyprus, and Rhodes.
10:5  From these descendants the people of the coastlands spread into their own countries. Each nation had its own language and families.
10:6  Ham's descendants were Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
10:7  Cush's descendants were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah's descendants were Sheba and Dedan.
10:8  Cush was the father of Nimrod, the first mighty warrior on the earth.
10:9  He was a mighty hunter whom the LORD blessed. That's why people used to say, "[He's] like Nimrod, a mighty hunter whom the LORD blessed."
10:10  The first [cities] in his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in Shinar [Babylonia].
10:11  He went from that land to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
10:12  and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.
10:13  Egypt was the ancestor of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
10:14  Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.
10:15  Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, then Heth,
10:16  also the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
10:17  the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
10:18  the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite families scattered.
10:19  The border of the Canaanites extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.
10:20  These were Ham's descendants by families and languages within their countries and nations.
10:21  Shem, Japheth's older brother, also had children. [Shem was] the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.
10:22  Shem's descendants were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
10:23  Aram's descendants were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
10:24  Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.
10:25  Two sons were born to Eber. The name of the one was Peleg [Division], because in his day the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.
10:26  Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
10:27  Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
10:28  Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
10:29  Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. These were Joktan's sons.
10:30  The region where they lived extended from Mesha toward Sephar in the eastern mountains.
10:31  These were Shem's descendants by families and languages within their countries according to their nations.
10:32  These were the families of Noah's sons listed by their genealogies, nation by nation. From these [descendants] the nations spread over the earth after the flood.