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Genesis 10:6-20

6The sons of Ham:

Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

7The sons of Cush:

Seba, Havilah, Sabtah,1 Raamah, and Sabteca.

And the sons of Raamah:

Sheba and Dedan.

8Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one2 on the earth. 9He was a mighty hunter before3 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.4 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.5

15And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn,6 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.

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 10:7 Sabtah is a variant of Sabta; see 1 Chronicles 1:9. ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 10:8 Or who established himself as a mighty warrior or who became the first fearless leader ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 10:9 Or in defiance of; twice in this verse ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 10:10 That is, Babylonia ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 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. ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 10:15 Or of the Sidonians, the foremost ↩

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