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The sons of Gomer were 1Ashkenaz and Riphath and 2Togarmah.
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The sons of Javan were Elishah and 3Tarshish, 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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4The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
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The sons of Cush were 5Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and 6Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were 7Sheba and 8Dedan.
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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 9Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of 10Shinar.
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From that land he wentforth11into Assyria, and builtNineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,
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and ResenbetweenNineveh and Calah; that is the greatcity.
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Mizraimbecame the father of 12Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim
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.