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Genesis, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of
Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the
flood.
{10:2} The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal,
Meshech, and Tiras. {10:3} The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and
Togarmah. {10:4} The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and
Dodanim. {10:5} Of these were the islands of the nations divided in
their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in
their nations.
{10:6} The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. {10:7} The
sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of
Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. {10:8} Cush became the father of Nimrod. He
began to be a mighty one in the earth. {10:9} He was a mighty hunter
before the LORD. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter
before the LORD." {10:10} The beginning of his kingdom was Babel,
Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. {10:11} Out of that
land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
{10:12} and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great
city). {10:13} Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim,
Naphtuhim, {10:14} Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines
descended from), and Caphtorim.
{10:15} Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
{10:16} the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, {10:17} the Hivite,
the Arkite, the Sinite, {10:18} the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the
Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread
abroad. {10:19} The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go
toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and
Zeboiim, to Lasha. {10:20} These are the sons of Ham, after their
families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
{10:21} To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder
brother of Japheth, to him also were children born. {10:22} The sons
of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. {10:23} The sons of
Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. {10:24} Arpachshad became the father
of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber. {10:25} To Eber were born
two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was
divided. His brother's name was Joktan. {10:26} Joktan became the
father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, {10:27} Hadoram, Uzal,
Diklah, {10:28} Obal, Abimael, Sheba, {10:29} Ophir, Havilah, and
Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. {10:30} Their dwelling was
from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. {10:31}
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their
languages, in their lands, after their nations.
{10:32} These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their
generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in
the earth after the flood.
{11:1} The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. {11:2}
It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the
land of Shinar, and they lived there. {11:3} They said one to another,
"Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick
for stone, and they used tar for mortar. {11:4} They said, "Come,
let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the
sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on
the surface of the whole earth."
{11:5} The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the
children of men built. {11:6} The LORD said, "Behold, they are one
people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to
do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
{11:7} Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that
they may not understand one another's speech." {11:8} So the LORD
scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They
stopped building the city. {11:9} Therefore its name was called Babel,
because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From
there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
{11:10} This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one
hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after
the flood. {11:11} Shem lived five hundred years after he became the
father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.
{11:12} Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of
Shelah. {11:13} Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he
became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and
daughters.
{11:14} Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
{11:15} and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the
father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.
{11:16} Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of
Peleg. {11:17} Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became
the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.
{11:18} Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
{11:19} Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father
of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.
{11:20} Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
{11:21} Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father
of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.
{11:22} Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
{11:23} Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of
Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.
{11:24} Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of
Terah. {11:25} Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became
the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.
{11:26} Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram,
Nahor, and Haran.
{11:27} Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah
became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father
of Lot. {11:28} Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his
birth, in Ur-Kasdim. {11:29} Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of
Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the
daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah. {11:30} Sarai was
barren. She had no child. {11:31} Terah took Abram his son, Lot the
son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son
Abram's wife. They went from Ur-Kasdim, to go into the land of Canaan.
They came to Haran and lived there. {11:32} The days of Terah were two
hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
{12:1} Now the LORD said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and
from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I
will show you. {12:2} I will make of you a great nation. I will bless
you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. {12:3} I will
bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of
the families of the earth will be blessed in you."
{12:4} So Abram went, as the LORD had spoken to him. Lot went with
him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
{12:5} Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their
substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten
in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land
of Canaan they came. {12:6} Abram passed through the land to the place
of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
{12:7} The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land
to your [1>]seed[<1]."
He built an altar there to the LORD, who appeared to him. {12:8} He
left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his
tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an
altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD. {12:9} Abram
traveled, going on still toward the South.
{12:10} There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt
to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
{12:11} It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he
said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful
woman to look at. {12:12} It will happen, when the Egyptians will see
you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but
they will save you alive. {12:13} Please say that you are my sister,
that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live
because of you."
{12:14} It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the
Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. {12:15} The princes
of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was
taken into Pharaoh's house. {12:16} He dealt well with Abram for her
sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female
servants, female donkeys, and camels. {12:17} The LORD plagued Pharaoh
and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
{12:18} Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have
done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife? {12:19} Why
did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now
therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
{12:20} Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him
on the way with his wife and all that he had.
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Footnotes:
[1] {12:7} or, offspring
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