1 Chronicles 1
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1 Chronicles 1:8-16

8The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

9The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta,1 Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

10Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one2 on the earth.

11Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,

12the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.3

13And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn,4 and of the Hittites,5

14the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

15the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

16the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

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  1. 1. 1 Chronicles 1:9 Sabta is a variant of Sabtah; see Genesis 10:7. ↩
  2. 2. 1 Chronicles 1:10 Or who established himself as a mighty warrior ↩
  3. 3. 1 Chronicles 1:12 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. ↩
  4. 4. 1 Chronicles 1:13 Or of the Sidonians, the foremost ↩
  5. 5. 1 Chronicles 1:13 Hebrew and of Heth ↩

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