Book Title: Genesis
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________________ ...... O...... Genesis 9:24 turned away. 24 When Noah woke up from his wine, he discovered what his youngest son had done to him. 25 He said, "Cursed be Canaan: the lowest servant he will be for his brothers." 26 He also said, "Bless the LORD, the God of Shem; Canaan will be his servant. 27 May God give space' to Japheth; he will live in Shem's tents, and Canaan will be his servant." 28 After the flood, Noah lived 350 years. 29 In all, Noah lived 950 years; then he died. Noah's descendants 8 Arkites, the Sinites, 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. After this the Canaanite clans were dispersed. 19 The Canaanite boundary extends from Sidon by way of Gerar to Gaza and by way of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim to Lasha. 20These are Ham's sons according to their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations. 21 Children were also born to Shem the father of all Eber's children and Japheth's older brother. 22 Shem's sons: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. 23 Aram's sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24 Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber. 25To Eber were born two sons: The first was named Peleg, because during his lifetime the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan. 26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All of these were Joktan's sons. 30 Their settlements extended from Mesha by way of Sephar, the eastern mountains. 31These are Shem's sons according to their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations. 32 These are the clans of Noah's sons according to their generations and their nations. From them the earth's nations branched out after the flood. These are the descendants of Noah's Ham, and Japheth, to whom children were born after the flood. 2Japheth's sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3 Gomer's sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. Javan's sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 5From these the islandnations were divided into their own countries, each according to their languages and their clans within their nations. "Ham's sons: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 'Cush's sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah's sons: Sheba and Dedan. Cush fathered Nimrod, the first great warrior on earth. "The LORD saw him as a great hunter, and so it is said, "Like Nimrod, whom the LORD Origin of languages and cultures saw as a great hunter." 10The most important cities in his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar. "Asshur left that land and built Nineveh, Rehoboth City, Calah, 12and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.13 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim, from which the Philistines came. All people on the earth had one language and the same words. "When they traveled east," they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them hard." They used bricks for stones and asphalt for mortar. "They said, "Come, let's build for ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and let's make a name for ourselves so that we won't be dispersed over all the earth." 15 Canaan fathered Sidon his oldest son, and Heth, 16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, "the Hivites, the 5 Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the humans built. ‘And Heb sounds like Japheth. LXX, Sam, 1 Chron 1:7; MT Dodanim Or Casluhim, from which the Philistines set out, and Caphtorim Or separation "Heb lacks people. "Or from the east

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