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The sons of Ham - Cush, Egypt, Libya, and Canaan - were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
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The descendants of Cush were the people of Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were the people of Sheba and Dedan.
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Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the world's first great conqueror.
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By the Lord's help he was a great hunter, and that is why people say, "May the Lord make you as great a hunter as Nimrod!"
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At first his kingdom included Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all three of them in Babylonia.
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From that land he went to Assyria and built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
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and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
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The descendants of Egypt were the people of Lydia, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,
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Pathrus, Casluh, and of Crete, from whom the Philistines are descended.
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Canaan's sons - Sidon, the oldest, and Heth - were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
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Canaan was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,