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3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Rifat, and Togarmah.
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The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
4 The sons of Yavan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
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The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites.
5 Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
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(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)
6 The sons of Ham: Kush, Mitzrayim, Put, and Kana`an.
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The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.
7 The sons of Kush: Seva, Havilah, Savtah, Ra`mah, and Savtekha. The sons of Ra`mah: Sheva and Dedan.
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The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
8 Kush became the father of Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the eretz.
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Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD."
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He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”
10 The beginning of his kingdom was Bavel, Erekh, Akkad, and Kalneh, in the land of Shin`ar.
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The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.
11 Out of that land he went forth into Ashshur, and built Nineveh, Rechovot-Ir, Kelach,
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From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah
12 and Resen between Nineveh and Kelach (the same is the great city).
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and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.
13 Mitzrayim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehavim, Naftuchim,
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Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
14 Patrusim, Kasluchim (which the Pelishtim descended from), and Kaftorim.
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Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.
15 Kana`an became the father of Tzidon (his firstborn), Het,
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Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
16 the Yevusi, the Amori, the Girgashi,
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Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
17 the Hivvi, the `Arki, the Sini,
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Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
18 the Arvadi, the Tzemari, and the Hamati. Afterward the families of the Kana`anim were spread abroad.
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Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered
19 The border of the Kana`anim was from Tzidon, as you go toward Gerar, to `Aza; as you go toward Sedom, `Amorah, Admah, and Tzevoyim, to Lasha.
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and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
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These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
21 To Shem, the father of all the children of `Ever, the elder brother of Yefet, to him also were children born.
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Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.
22 The sons of Shem: `Elam, Ashshur, Arpakhshad, Lud, and Aram.
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The sons of Shem: Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.
23 The sons of Aram: `Utz, Hul, Geter, and Mash.
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The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.
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