Genesis 10 — BSB
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The Table of Nations
10Verse 1This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.The Japhethites
Verse 2The sons of Japheth:Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.Verse 3The sons of Gomer:
Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.Verse 4And the sons of Javan:
Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.+Verse 5From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.
The Hamites
Verse 6The sons of Ham:Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.Verse 7The sons of Cush:
Seba, Havilah, Sabtah,+Raamah, and Sabteca.
And the sons of Raamah:
Sheba and Dedan.Verse 8Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one+on the earth.Verse 9He was a mighty hunter before+the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”Verse 10His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.+Verse 11From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,Verse 12and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.Verse 13Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,Verse 14the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.+Verse 15And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn,+and of the Hittites,Verse 16the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,Verse 17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,Verse 18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.
Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,Verse 19and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.Verse 20These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
The Semites
Verse 21And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth;+Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.Verse 22The sons of Shem:Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.Verse 23The sons of Aram:
Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.+Verse 24Arphaxad was the father of Shelah,+and Shelah was the father of Eber.Verse 25Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg,+because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.Verse 26And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,Verse 27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,Verse 28Obal, Abimael, Sheba,Verse 29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.Verse 30Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.Verse 31These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.Verse 32All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.