1 Chronicles 1:1-19 ▼

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.

13 And Canaan (lowland) was the father of Sidon (hunting) his firstborn (of the Sidonians, the foremost), and of the Hittites \and of Heth/,

14 the Jebusites (Jerusalemites), the Amorites (sayers), the Girgashites (dwelling on clay),

15 the Hivites (villagers), the Arkites, the Sinites,

16 the Arvadites (I shall break loose), the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

17 The sons of Shem (name): Elam (eternity), Asshur (a step), Arphaxad (I fail as the breast), Lud (strife), and Aram. The sons of Aram: Uz (wooded), Hul (circle), Gether (fear), and Meshech (Mash).

18 Arphaxad (I fail as the breast) was the father of Shelah (sprout), and Shelah was the father of Eber (the region beyond).

19 Two sons were born to Eber (the region beyond): One was named Peleg (division), because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan (smallness).