1 Chronicles 1:1-12 ▼

1 Adam (red), Seth (appointed), Enosh (mortal),

2 Kenan (possession), Mahalalel (the blessed of God), Jared (descended),

3 Enoch (teaching), Methuselah (his death shall bring), Lamech, Noah (lamenting).

4 The sons of Noah (comfort): Shem (name), Ham (hot), and Japheth (expand).

5 The sons of Japheth (expand): Gomer (complete), Magog (land of Gog), Madai (middle land), Javan (Greece), Tubal (brought), Meshech (drawing out), and Tiras (desire).

6 The sons of Gomer (complete): Ashkenaz, Riphath [Diphath], and Togarmah (You will break her).

7 And the sons of Javan (Greece): Elishah (God saves), Tarshish (yellow jasper), the Kittites (bruisers), and the Rodanites (leaders).

8 The sons of Ham (hot): Cush (black), Mizraim (land of bondage), Put (a bow), and Canaan (lowland).

9 The sons of Cush (black): Seba (drink you), Havilah (circle), Sabta (Sabtah), Raamah (horse's mane), and Sabteca (striking). The sons of Raamah: Sheba (seven) and Dedan (low country).

10 Cush (black) was the father of Nimrod (rebellion), who began to be a mighty one (who established himself as a mighty warrior) on the earth.

11 Mizraim (land of bondage) was the father of the Ludites (to the firebrands), the Anamites (affliction of the waters), the Lehabites (flames), the Naphtuhites (openings),

12 the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (fortified) (from whom the Philistines (immigrants) came), and the Caphtorites.