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¹ These are the family records ⓔ of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.

² Japheth’s sons: ⓕ Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

³ Gomer’s sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

⁴ And Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, ⓖ Kittim, and Dodanim. [1]

⁵ From these descendants, the peoples of the coasts and islands spread out into their lands according to their clans in their nations, each with its own language.

⁶ Ham’s sons: ⓗ Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

⁷ Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And Raamah’s sons: Sheba and Dedan.

⁸ Cush fathered Nimrod, who began to be powerful in the land.

⁹ He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the LORD. That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the LORD.”

¹⁰ His kingdom started with Babylon, ⓘ Erech, [2] Accad, [3] and Calneh, [4] in the land of Shinar. [5] ⓙ

¹¹ From that land he went to Assyria ⓚ and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,

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

¹³ Mizraim [6] ⓛ fathered the people of Lud, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,

¹⁴ Pathrus, Casluh (the Philistines came from them), and Caphtor. ⓜ

¹⁵ Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,

¹⁶ as well as the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, ⓝ

¹⁷ the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

¹⁸ the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the Canaanite clans scattered.

¹⁹ The Canaanite border went from Sidon going toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and going toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.

²⁰ These are Ham’s sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

²¹ And Shem, Japheth’s older brother, also had sons. Shem was the father of all the sons of Eber. ⓐ

²² Shem’s sons ⓑ were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

²³ Aram’s sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

²⁴ Arpachshad fathered [7] Shelah, ⓒ and Shelah fathered Eber.

²⁵ Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg, [8] for during his days the earth was divided; ⓓ his brother was named Joktan.

²⁶ And Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

²⁹ Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were Joktan’s sons.

³⁰ Their settlements extended from Mesha to Sephar, the eastern hill country.

³¹ These are Shem’s sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

³² These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood. ⓔ

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1	These are the family records ⓔ of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.
2	Japheth’s sons: ⓕ Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3	Gomer’s sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4	And Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, ⓖ Kittim, and Dodanim. [1]
5	From these descendants, the peoples of the coasts and islands spread out into their lands according to their clans in their nations, each with its own language.
6	Ham’s sons: ⓗ Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
7	Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And Raamah’s sons: Sheba and Dedan.
8	Cush fathered Nimrod, who began to be powerful in the land.
9	He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the LORD. That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the LORD.”
10	His kingdom started with Babylon, ⓘ Erech, [2] Accad, [3] and Calneh, [4] in the land of Shinar. [5] ⓙ
11	From that land he went to Assyria ⓚ and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
12	and Resen, between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
13	Mizraim [6] ⓛ fathered the people of Lud, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,
14	Pathrus, Casluh (the Philistines came from them), and Caphtor. ⓜ
15	Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,
16	as well as the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, ⓝ
17	the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
18	the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the Canaanite clans scattered.
19	The Canaanite border went from Sidon going toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and going toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.
20	These are Ham’s sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
21	And Shem, Japheth’s older brother, also had sons. Shem was the father of all the sons of Eber. ⓐ
22	Shem’s sons ⓑ were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
23	Aram’s sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
24	Arpachshad fathered [7] Shelah, ⓒ and Shelah fathered Eber.
25	Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg, [8] for during his days the earth was divided; ⓓ his brother was named Joktan.
26	And Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
27	Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
28	Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
29	Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were Joktan’s sons.
30	Their settlements extended from Mesha to Sephar, the eastern hill country.
31	These are Shem’s sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
32	These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood. ⓔ

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^{Genesis 10:2 [38]} Sons may mean descendants or successors or nations; also in verses 3, 4, 6, 7, 20-23, 29 and 31.

^{Genesis 10:4 [39]} Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text and Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:7); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text Dodanites

^{Genesis 10:8 [40]} Father may mean ancestor or predecessor or founder; also in verses 13, 15, 24 and 26.

^{Genesis 10:10 [41]} Or Uruk and Akkad—all of them in

^{Genesis 10:10 [42]} That is, Babylonia

^{Genesis 10:11 [43]} Or Nineveh with its city squares

^{Genesis 10:15 [44]} Or of the Sidonians, the foremost

^{Genesis 10:21 [45]} Or Shem, the older brother of

^{Genesis 10:23 [46]} See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:17; Hebrew Mash.

^{Genesis 10:24 [47]} Hebrew; Septuagint father of Cainan, and Cainan was the father of

^{Genesis 10:25 [48]} Peleg means division.

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