Genesis 10
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The Table of Nations

1 Chronicles 1:4–27

1This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.+

The Japhethites

2The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.+ 3The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.+ 4And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.+ 5From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.+

The Hamites

6The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.+ 7The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.+ 8Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.+ 9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”+ 10His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.+ 11From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,+ 12and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.+ 13Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,+ 14the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.+ 15And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,+ 16the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,+ 17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,+ 18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,+ 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.+ 20These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.+

The Semites

21And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.+ 22The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.+ 23The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.+ 24Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.+ 25Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.+ 26And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,+ 27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,+ 28Obal, Abimael, Sheba,+ 29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.+ 30Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.+ 31These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.+ 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.+
Footnotes (11)
  1. a 10:4 SP and some MT manuscripts (see also LXX and 1 Chronicles 1:7); most MT manuscripts Dodanites
  2. b 10:7 Sabtah is a variant of Sabta; see 1 Chronicles 1:9
  3. c 10:8 Or who established himself as a mighty warrior or who became the first fearless leader
  4. d 10:9 Or in defiance of; twice in this verse
  5. e 10:10 That is, Babylonia
  6. f 10:14 Some translators adjust the Hebrew word order to the Casluhites, and the Caphtorites (from whom the Philistines came); see also Jeremiah 47:4 and Amos 9:7.
  7. g 10:15 Or of the Sidonians, the foremost
  8. h 10:21 Or Shem, whose older brother was Japheth
  9. i 10:23 Hebrew; LXX and 1 Chronicles 1:17 Meshech
  10. j 10:24 Hebrew; LXX (see also Luke 3:35–36) And Arphaxad was the father of Cainan, and Cainan was the father of Shelah,
  11. k 10:25 Peleg means division.

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