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GENESIS: CHAPTER
10-11
GENESIS: CHAPTER
10
Descendants
of Noah
1 Now these are the records of the generations
of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them
after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer
and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
3 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz and
Riphath and Togarmah.
4 The sons of Javan were Elishah and Tarshish,
Kittim and Dodanim.
5 From these the coastlands of the nations were
separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according
to their families, into their nations.
6 The sons of Ham were Cush and
Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
7 The sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah
and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were
Sheba and Dedan.
8 Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became
a mighty one on the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD;
therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."
10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and
Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 From that land he went forth into Assyria,
and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,
12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that
is the great city.
13 Mizraim became the father of Ludim and Anamim
and Lehabim and Naphtuhim
14 and Pathrusim and Casluhim (from which came
the Philistines) and Caphtorim.
15 Canaan became the father of Sidon,
his firstborn, and Heth
16 and the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite
17 and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite
18 and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the
Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.
19 The territory of the Canaanite extended from
Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward Sodom
and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham, according to their
families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.
21 Also to Shem, the father of all the
children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children
were born.
22 The sons of Shem were Elam and Asshur
and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.
23 The sons of Aram were Uz and Hul and
Gether and Mash.
24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and
Shelah became the father of Eber.
25 Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the
one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his
brother's name was Joktan.
26 Joktan became the father of Almodad and Sheleph
and Hazarmaveth and Jerah
27 and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah
28 and Obal and Abimael and Sheba
29 and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these
were the sons of Joktan.
30 Now their settlement extended from Mesha as
you go toward Sephar, the hill country of the east.
31 These are the sons of Shem, according to their
families, according to their languages, by their lands, according to
their nations.
32 These are the families of the sons
of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations; and out of
these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.
GENESIS: CHAPTER
11
Universal
Language, Babel, Confusion
1 Now the whole earth used the same language
and the same words.
2 It came about as they journeyed east, that
they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to one another, "Come, let us make
bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone,
and they used tar for mortar.
4 They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves
a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let
us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad
over the face of the whole earth."
5 The LORD came down to
see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
6 The LORD said, "Behold,
they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is
what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will
be impossible for them.
7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their
language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
8 So the LORD scattered
them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped
building the city.
9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because
there the LORD confused the language of the whole
earth; and from there the LORD scattered them
abroad over the face of the whole earth.
Descendants
of Shem
10 These are the records of the
generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the
father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;
11 and Shem lived five hundred years after he
became the father of Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters.
12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years,
and became the father of Shelah;
13 and Arpachshad lived four hundred and three
years after he became the father of Shelah, and he had other
sons and daughters.
14 Shelah lived thirty years, and became
the father of Eber;
15 and Shelah lived four hundred and three years
after he became the father of Eber, and he had other sons and
daughters.
16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became
the father of Peleg;
17 and Eber lived four hundred and thirty years
after he became the father of Peleg, and he had other sons and
daughters.
18 Peleg lived thirty years, and became
the father of Reu;
19 and Peleg lived two hundred and nine years
after he became the father of Reu, and he had other sons and
daughters.
20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became
the father of Serug;
21 and Reu lived two hundred and seven years
after he became the father of Serug, and he had other sons and
daughters.
22 Serug lived thirty years, and became
the father of Nahor;
23 and Serug lived two hundred years after he
became the father of Nahor, and he had other sons and daughters.
24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and
became the father of Terah;
25 and Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years
after he became the father of Terah, and he had other sons and
daughters.
26 Terah lived seventy years, and became
the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.
27 Now these are the records of
the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and
Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot.
28 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah
in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29 Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves.
The name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife was
Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.
30 Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the
son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's
wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to
enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled
there.
32 The days of Terah were two hundred and five
years; and Terah died in Haran. |
