The Bible. Various Authors

The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

      10:3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

      10:4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

      10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

      10:6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

      10:7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

      10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

      10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

      10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

      10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

      10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

      10:13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

      10:14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

      10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,

      10:16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

      10:17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

      10:18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

      10:19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

      10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

      10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

      10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

      10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

      10:24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

      10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

      10:26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

      10:27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

      10:28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

      10:29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

      10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

      10:31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

      10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

      11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

      11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

      11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

      11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

      11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

      11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

      11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

      11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

      11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

      11:10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

      11:11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

      11:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

      11:13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

      11:14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

      11:15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

      11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

      11:17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

      11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

      11:19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

      11:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

      11:21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

      11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

      11:23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

      11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

      11:25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

      11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

      11:27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

      11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

      11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

      11:30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

      11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

      11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

      12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

      12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

      12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

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