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Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. The Canaanite clans eventually spread out,
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and the territory of Canaan extended from Sidon in the north to Gerar and Gaza in the south, and east as far as Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, near Lasha.
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These were the descendants of Ham, identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity.
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Sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth. Shem was the ancestor of all the descendants of Eber.
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The descendants of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
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.