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January 4
12 Then God said, “I am giving you a sign
of my covenant with you and with all living creatures, for all generations to come. 13 I
have placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is
the sign of my covenant with you and with
all the earth. 14 When I send clouds over the
earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds,
15 and I will remember my covenant with you
and with all living creatures. Never again
will the floodwaters destroy all life. 16 When I
see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember
the eternal covenant between God and e very
living creature on earth.” 17 Then God said to
Noah, “Yes, this rainbow is the sign of the cov
enant I am confirming with all the creatures
on earth.”
18 The sons of Noah who came out of the
boat with their father were Shem, Ham, and
Japheth. (Ham is the father of Canaan.) 19 From
these three sons of Noah came all the people
who now populate the earth.
20 After the flood, Noah began to cultivate
the ground, and he planted a vineyard. 21 One
day he drank some wine he had made, and he
became drunk and lay naked inside his tent.
22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and went outside and told his
brothers. 23 Then Shem and Japheth took a
robe, held it over their shoulders, and backed
into the tent to cover their father. As they did
this, they looked the other way so they would
not see him naked.
24 When Noah woke up from his stupor, he
learned what Ham, his youngest son, had done.
25 Then he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham:
“May Canaan be cursed!
May he be the lowest of servants to
his relatives.”
26 Then Noah said,
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“May the Lord, the God of Shem, be blessed,
and may Canaan be his servant!
May God expand the territory of Japheth!
May Japheth share the prosperity of
Shem,*
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, R
ehoboth-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
