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1The sons of Japheth were 2Gomer and Magog and 3Madai and 4Javan and Tubal and 5Meshech and Tiras.
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The sons of Gomer were 6Ashkenaz and Riphath and 7Togarmah.
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The sons of Javan were Elishah and 8Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.
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From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.
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9The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
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The sons of Cush were 10Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and 11Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were 12Sheba and 13Dedan.
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Now Cushbecame the father of Nimrod; he became* a mightyone on the earth.
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He was a mightyhunterbefore the LORD; therefore* it is said, "Like Nimrod a mightyhunterbefore the LORD."
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The beginning of his kingdom was 14Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of 15Shinar.
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From that land he wentforth16into Assyria, and builtNineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,
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and ResenbetweenNineveh and Calah; that is the greatcity.
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.