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		Gen 10:1 These are the records of the generations (descendants) of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and the sons born to them after the flood:
		Gen 10:2 ¶ the sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras;
		Gen 10:3 the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah;
		Gen 10:4 the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
		Gen 10:5 From these, [the people of] the coastlands of the nations were separated and spread into their lands, every one according to his own language, according to their constituent groups (families), and into their nations:
		Gen 10:6 ¶ the sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim [from whom descended the Egyptians], Put, and Canaan;
		Gen 10:7 the sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah; Sheba and Dedan.
		Gen 10:8 Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth.
		Gen 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."
		Gen 10:10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [in Babylonia].
		Gen 10:11 From that land Nimrod went to Assyria, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,
		Gen 10:12 and [Nimrod built] Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; all these [combined to form] the great city [Nineveh]. [Jon 1:2; 3:2]
		Gen 10:13 Mizraim [the ancestor of the Egyptians] became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim
		Gen 10:14 and Pathrusim and Casluhim--from whom came the Philistines--and Caphtorim.
		Gen 10:15 ¶ Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth
		Gen 10:16 and the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite
		Gen 10:17 and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite
		Gen 10:18 and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.
		Gen 10:19 The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as one goes to Gerar, as far as Gaza; and as one goes to Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
		Gen 10:20 These are the descendants of Ham according to their constituent groups, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.
		Gen 10:21 ¶ Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber [including the Hebrews], the older brother of Japheth, children were born.
		Gen 10:22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram;
		Gen 10:23 the sons of Aram [ancestor of the Syrians]: Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash.
		Gen 10:24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.
		Gen 10:25 Two sons were born to Eber; the name of one was Peleg (division), for [the inhabitants of] the earth were divided in his days; and his brother's name was Joktan.
		Gen 10:26 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
		Gen 10:27 and Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
		Gen 10:28 and Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
		Gen 10:29 and Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
		Gen 10:30 Now their territory extended from Mesha as one goes toward Sephar, to the hill country of the east.
		Gen 10:31 These are Shem's descendants according to their constituent groups (families), according to their languages, by their lands, according to their nations.
		Gen 10:32 ¶ These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their descendants, by their nations; and from these [people] the nations were separated and spread abroad on the earth after the flood. [Acts 17:26]

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