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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.
Descendants of Japheth
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.
Descendants of Ham
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.
Descendants of Shem
21 Sons were also born to Shem, the older
brother of Japheth.* Shem was the ancestor
of all the descendants of Eber.
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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.
Conclusion
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.
The Tower of Babel
At one time all the people of the world
spoke the same language and used the
same words. 2 As the people migrated to the
east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia* and settled there.
3 They began saying to each other, “Let’s
make bricks and harden them with fire.” (In
this region bricks were used instead of stone,
and tar was used for mortar.) 4 Then they said,
“Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with
a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make
us famous and keep us from being scattered all
over the world.”
5 But the Lord came down to look at the
city and the tower the people were building.
6 “Look!” he said. “The people are united, and
they all speak the same language. After this,
nothing they set out to do will be impossible
for them! 7 Come, let’s go down and confuse
the people with different languages. Then they
won’t be able to understand each other.”
8 In that way, the Lord scattered them all over
the world, and they stopped building the city.
9 That is why the city was called Babel,* because
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10:4 As in some Hebrew manuscripts and Greek version (see
also 1 Chr 1:7); most Hebrew manuscripts read Dodanim.
10:9 Hebrew a great hunter before the Lord; also in 10:9b.
10:10 Hebrew Shinar. 10:11 Or From that land Assyria went
out. 10:14 Hebrew Casluhites, from whom the Philistines came,
and Caphtorites. Compare Jer 47:4; Amos 9:7. 10:15 Hebrew
ancestor of Heth. 10:21 Or Shem, whose older brother was
Japheth. 10:24 Greek version reads Arphaxad was the father
of Cainan, Cainan was the father of Shelah. Compare Luke 3:36.
11:2 Hebrew Shinar. 11:9 Or Babylon. Babel sounds like a
Hebrew term that means “confusion.”