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January 4
and may Canaan be his
servant.”
28 Noah lived another 350 years after
the great flood. 29 He lived 950 years,
and then he died.
10:1 This
is the account of the families
of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the three
sons of Noah. Many children were
born to them after the great flood.
2 The
descendants of Japheth were
Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan,
Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3 The descendants of Gomer
were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and
Togarmah.
4 The descendants of Javan were
Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and
Rodanim.* 5 Their descendants
became the seafaring peoples that
spread out to various lands, each
identified by its own language,
clan, and national identity.
6 The
descendants of Ham were Cush,
Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
7 The descendants of Cush were
Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah,
and Sabteca. The descendants of
Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
8 Cush was also the ancestor of
Nimrod, who was the first heroic
warrior on earth. 9 Since he was
the greatest hunter in the world,*
his name became proverbial.
People would say, “This man is
like Nimrod, the greatest hunter in
the world.” 10 He built his kingdom
in the land of Babylonia,* with the
cities of Babylon, Erech, Akkad,
and Calneh. 11 From there he
expanded his territory to Assyria,*
building the cities of Nineveh,
Rehoboth-ir, Calah, 12 and Resen
(the great city located between
Nineveh and Calah).
13 Mizraim was the ancestor of the
Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites,
Naphtuhites, 14 Pathrusites,
Casluhites, and the Caphtorites,
from whom the Philistines came.*
15 Canaan’s oldest son was Sidon,
the ancestor of the Sidonians.
Canaan was also the ancestor of
the Hittites,* 16 Jebusites, Amorites,
Girgashites, 17 Hivites, Arkites,
Sinites, 18 Arvadites, Zemarites,
and Hamathites. The Canaanite
clans eventually spread out, 19 and
the territory of Canaan extended
from Sidon in the north to Gerar
and Gaza in the south, and east as
far as Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah,
and Zeboiim, near Lasha.
20 These were the descendants of Ham,
identified by clan, language, territory,
and national identity.
21 Sons
were also born to Shem,
the older brother of Japheth.*
Shem was the ancestor of all the
descendants of Eber.
22 The descendants of Shem were
Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and
Aram.
23 The descendants of Aram were Uz,
Hul, Gether, and Mash.
24 Arphaxad was the father of
Shelah,* and Shelah was the
father of Eber.
25 Eber had two sons. The first was
named Peleg (which means
“division”), for during his lifetime
the people of the world were divided
into different language groups. His
brother’s name was Joktan.
26 Joktan was the ancestor of
Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth,
Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 Ophir,
Havilah, and Jobab. All these
were descendants of Joktan. 30 The
territory they occupied extended
from Mesha all the way to Sephar
in the eastern mountains.
31 These were the descendants of Shem,
identified by clan, language, territory,
and national identity.
32 These are the clans that descended from Noah’s sons, arranged
by nation according to their lines of
descent. All the nations of the earth
descended from these clans after the
great flood.
8:4 Hebrew on the seventeenth day of the seventh
month; see 7:11. 8:5 Hebrew On the first day of the
tenth month; see 7:11 and note on 8:4. 8:13 Hebrew
