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This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their descendants. Shem, Ham and Japheth had children after the flood.
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Japheth's descendants were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
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Gomer's descendants were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
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Javan's descendants were the people from Elishah, Tarshish, Cyprus, and Rhodes.
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From these descendants the people of the coastlands spread into their own countries. Each nation had its own language and families.
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Ham's descendants were Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
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Cush's descendants were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah's descendants were Sheba and Dedan.
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Cush was the father of Nimrod, the first mighty warrior on the earth.
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He was a mighty hunter whom the LORD blessed. That's why people used to say, "[He's] like Nimrod, a mighty hunter whom the LORD blessed."
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The first [cities] in his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in Shinar [Babylonia].
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He went from that land to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
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and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.
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Egypt was the ancestor of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
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Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.
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Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, then Heth,
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also the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
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the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite families scattered.
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The border of the Canaanites extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.
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These were Ham's descendants by families and languages within their countries and nations.
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Shem, Japheth's older brother, also had children. [Shem was] the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.
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Shem's descendants were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
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Aram's descendants were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
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Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.
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Two sons were born to Eber. The name of the one was Peleg [Division], because in his day the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.
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Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
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Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. These were Joktan's sons.
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The region where they lived extended from Mesha toward Sephar in the eastern mountains.
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These were Shem's descendants by families and languages within their countries according to their nations.
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These were the families of Noah's sons listed by their genealogies, nation by nation. From these [descendants] the nations spread over the earth after the flood.