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These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, to whom sons were born after the flood:
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Japheth's sons: Gomer, Magog, the Medes, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, Tiras.
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Gomer's sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, Togarmah.
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Javan's sons: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim, the Dananites.
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From these came the dispersal to the islands of the nations. These were Japheth's sons, in their respective countries, each with its own language, by clan and nation.
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Ham's sons: Cush, Mizraim, Put, Canaan.
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Cush's sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabteca. Raamah's sons: Sheba, Dedan.
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Cush fathered Nimrod who was the first potentate on earth.
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He was a mighty hunter in the eyes of Yahweh, hence the saying, 'Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter in the eyes of Yahweh'.
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The mainstays of his empire were Babel, Erech and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.
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From this country came Asshur, and he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
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and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (this being the capital).
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Mizraim fathered the people of Lud, of Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,
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Pathros, Casluh and Caphtor, from which the Philistines came.
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Canaan fathered Sidon, his first-born, then Heth,
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and the Jebusites, the Amorites, Girgashites,
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Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
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Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later, the Canaanite clans spread out.
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The Canaanite frontier stretched from Sidon all the way to Gerar near Gaza, and all the way to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim near Lesha.
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These were Ham's sons, by clans and languages, by countries and nations.
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Shem too fathered sons, being ancestor of all the sons of Eber and Japheth's elder brother.
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Shem's sons: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram.
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Aram's sons: Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash.
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Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.
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To Eber were born two sons: the first was called Peleg, because it was in his time that the earth was divided, and his brother was called Joktan.
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Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
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Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
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Obal, Abima-El, Sheba,
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Ophir, Havilah, Jobab; all these were sons of Joktan.
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They occupied a stretch of country from Mesha all the way to Sephar, the eastern mountain range.
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These were Shem's sons, by clans and languages, by countries and nations.
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Such were the clans of Noah's descendants, listed by descent and nation. From them, other nations branched out on earth after the flood.
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