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The Table of Nations
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# Chapter 10
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1. These are the family records of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.
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2. Japheth's sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
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3. Gomer's sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
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4. And Javan's sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
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5. From these descendants, the peoples of the coasts and islands spread out into their lands according to their clans in their nations, each with its own language.
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6. Ham's sons: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
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7. Cush's sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And Raamah's sons: Sheba and Dedan.
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8. Cush fathered Nimrod, who began to be powerful in the land.
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9. He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord. That is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord."
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10. His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
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11. From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
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12. and Resen, between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
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13. Mizraim fathered the people of Lud, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,
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14. Pathrus, Casluh (the Philistines came from them), and Caphtor.
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15. Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,
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16. as well as the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
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17. the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
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18. the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the Canaanite clans scattered.
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19. The Canaanite border went from Sidon going toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and going toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.
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20. These are Ham's sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
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21. And Shem, Japheth's older brother, also had sons. Shem was the father of all the sons of Eber.
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22. Shem's sons were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
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23. Aram's sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
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24. Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.
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25. Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg, for during his days the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
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26. And Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
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27. Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
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28. Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
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29. Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were Joktan's sons.
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30. Their settlements extended from Mesha to Sephar, the eastern hill country.
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31. These are Shem's sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
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32. These are the clans of Noah's sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.
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