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| | Gen 10:1 | Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters
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| | Gen 10:2 | The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
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| | Gen 10:3 | And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.
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| | Gen 10:4 | And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim.
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| | Gen 10:5 | From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.
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| | Gen 10:6 | And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
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| | Gen 10:7 | And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
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| | Gen 10:8 | And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.
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| | Gen 10:9 | He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.
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| | Gen 10:10 | And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
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| | Gen 10:11 | From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,
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| | Gen 10:12 | And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great town.
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| | Gen 10:13 | And Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim;
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| | Gen 10:14 | And Pathrusim and Casluhim and Caphtorim, from whom came the Philistines.
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| | Gen 10:15 | And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,
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| | Gen 10:16 | And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,
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| | Gen 10:17 | And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,
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| | Gen 10:18 | And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions;
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| | Gen 10:19 | Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.
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| | Gen 10:20 | All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.
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| | Gen 10:21 | And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.
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| | Gen 10:22 | These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.
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| | Gen 10:23 | And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.
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| | Gen 10:24 | And Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.
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| | Gen 10:25 | And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.
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| | Gen 10:26 | And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah
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| | Gen 10:27 | And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah
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| | Gen 10:28 | And Obal and Abimael and Sheba
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| | Gen 10:29 | And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
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| | Gen 10:30 | And their country was from Mesha, in the direction of Sephar, the mountain of the east.
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| | Gen 10:31 | These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.
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| | Gen 10:32 | These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.
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