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Forsooth the sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
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Forsooth the sons of Javan were Elishah, and Tarshish, (and) Kittim, and Dodanim;
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of these sons the isles of the heathen men were parted in their countries, each by his language, and families, in his nations. (from these sons the heathen on the islands separated into their own countries, with their own languages, and families, and nations.)
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Soothly the sons of Ham were Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
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Forsooth the sons of Cush were Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah. The sons of Raamah were Sheba, and Dedan.
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Forsooth Cush begat Nimrod; (and) he began to be mighty in [the] earth,
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and he was a strong hunter, or oppressor, of men before the Lord; of him a proverb went out, (saying,) As Nimrod, a strong hunter before the Lord. (and he was a strong hunter before the Lord; and a proverb went out about him, saying, Be ye like Nimrod, a strong hunter before the Lord.)
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Soothly the beginning of his realm was Babylon, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
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Asshur went out of that land, and builded Nineveh, and [the] streets of the city, and Calah, (And he went out of that land to Assyria, and he built the cities of Nineveh, and Rehoboth Ir, and Calah,)
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and Resen betwixt Nineveh and Calah; this is a great city.
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And soothly Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, (And Mizraim begat the Lydians, and Anamites, and Lehabites, and Naphtuhites,)