Genesis 10 : 1 (NCV)
This is the family history of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. After the flood these three men had sons.
Genesis 10 : 2 (NCV)
The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10 : 3 (NCV)
The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Genesis 10 : 4 (NCV)
The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Genesis 10 : 5 (NCV)
Those who lived in the lands around the Mediterranean Sea came from these sons of Japheth. All the families grew and became different nations, each nation with its own land and its own language.
Genesis 10 : 6 (NCV)
The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Genesis 10 : 7 (NCV)
The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
Genesis 10 : 8 (NCV)
Cush also had a descendant named Nimrod, who became a very powerful man on earth.
Genesis 10 : 9 (NCV)
He was a great hunter before the Lord, which is why people say someone is "like Nimrod, a great hunter before the Lord."
Genesis 10 : 10 (NCV)
At first Nimrod's kingdom covered Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Babylonia.
Genesis 10 : 11 (NCV)
From there he went to Assyria, where he built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, and Calah.
Genesis 10 : 12 (NCV)
He also built Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.
Genesis 10 : 13 (NCV)
Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
Genesis 10 : 14 (NCV)
Pathrusites, Casluhites, and the people of Crete. (The Philistines came from the Casluhites.)
Genesis 10 : 15 (NCV)
Canaan was the father of Sidon, his first son, and of Heth.
Genesis 10 : 16 (NCV)
He was also the father of the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
Genesis 10 : 17 (NCV)
Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
Genesis 10 : 18 (NCV)
Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. The families of the Canaanites scattered.
Genesis 10 : 19 (NCV)
Their land reached from Sidon to Gerar as far as Gaza, and then to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
Genesis 10 : 20 (NCV)
All these people were the sons of Ham, and all these families had their own languages, their own lands, and their own nations.
Genesis 10 : 21 (NCV)
Shem, Japheth's older brother, also had sons. One of his descendants was the father of all the sons of Eber.
Genesis 10 : 22 (NCV)
The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 10 : 23 (NCV)
The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
Genesis 10 : 24 (NCV)
Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, who was the father of Eber.
Genesis 10 : 25 (NCV)
Eber was the father of two sons -- one named Peleg, because the earth was divided during his life, and the other was named Joktan.
Genesis 10 : 26 (NCV)
Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Genesis 10 : 27 (NCV)
Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
Genesis 10 : 28 (NCV)
Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
Genesis 10 : 29 (NCV)
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these people were the sons of Joktan.
Genesis 10 : 30 (NCV)
They lived in the area between Mesha and Sephar in the hill country in the East.
Genesis 10 : 31 (NCV)
These are the people from the family of Shem, arranged by families, languages, countries, and nations.
Genesis 10 : 32 (NCV)
This is the list of the families from the sons of Noah, arranged according to their nations. From these families came all the nations who spread across the earth after the flood.
❮
❯