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The sons of Japheth;Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
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And the sons of Gomer;Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
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And the sons of Javan;Elishah, and Tarshish,Kittim, and Dodanim.[a]
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By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
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And the sons of Ham;Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
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And the sons of Cush;Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah;Sheba, and Dedan.
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And CushbegatNimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
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He was a mightyhunterbefore the LORD:wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mightyhunterbefore the LORD.
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And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,[b] and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
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Out of that land went forthAsshur, and buildedNineveh, and the cityRehoboth, and Calah,
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And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a greatcity.
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And MizraimbegatLudim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
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And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
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And CanaanbegatSidon[c] his firstborn, and Heth,
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And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
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And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
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And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
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And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza;[d] as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
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These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
This chapter gives an account of the posterity of the three sons of Noah, by whom the world was peopled after the flood, Ge 10:1 of the posterity of Japheth, Ge 10:2-5 of the posterity of Ham, Ge 10:6-20 and of the posterity of Shem, Ge 10:21-32.