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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, who themselves had sons after the flood. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.) |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah--which is the great city. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The sons of Shem: Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah the father of Eber. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Obal, Abimael, Sheba, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32These are the clans of Noah's sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood. |
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