Genesis 10
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Genesis 10:5-20

5From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

6The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

7The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

8Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.

9He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord."

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

11From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and

12Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

13Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

14Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim.

15Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,

16and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed.

19And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

20These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

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