Genesis 10 — OURB
10Verse 1Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah [Rest] and of Shem [Name], Ham [Hot, Intensity, Passion], and Japheth [Enlargement, Spreading wide]. Sons were born to them after the flood.Verse 2The sons of Japheth [Enlargement, Spreading wide] were: Gomer, Magog [From roof-top], Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.Verse 3The sons of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.Verse 4The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.Verse 5Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.Verse 6The sons of Ham [Hot, Intensity, Passion] were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan [Humbled].Verse 7The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.Verse 8Cush became the father of Nimrod [Let us rebel]. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.Verse 9He was a mighty hunter before Adonai. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod [Let us rebel], a mighty hunter before Adonai”.Verse 10The beginning of his kingdom was Babel [Confusion], Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.Verse 11Out of that land he went into Assyria [Level plain], and built Nineveh [Offspring’s Habitation], Rehoboth Ir, Calah,Verse 12and Resen between Nineveh [Offspring’s Habitation] and the great city Calah.Verse 13Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,Verse 14Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines [To roll in dust (As an insult)] descended from), and Caphtorim.Verse 15Canaan [Humbled] became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth [Trembling fear],Verse 16the Jebusites [Descendants of Thresher], the Amorites [Descendants of Talkers], the Girgashites [Descendants of Who arrives from pilgrimage],Verse 17the Hivites [Wicked], the Arkites, the Sinites,Verse 18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites [Descendants of Humbled] were spread abroad.Verse 19The border of the Canaanites [Descendants of Humbled] was from Sidon— as you go toward Gerar— to Gaza— as you go toward Sodom [Burning], Gomorrah [Rebellious people, Tyrants], Admah, and Zeboiim— to Lasha.Verse 20These are the sons of Ham [Hot, Intensity, Passion], after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.Verse 21Children were also born to Shem [Name], the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth [Enlargement, Spreading wide].Verse 22The sons of Shem [Name] were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram [Elevated].Verse 23The sons of Aram [Elevated] were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.Verse 24Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.Verse 25To 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.Verse 26Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,Verse 27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,Verse 28Obal, Abimael, Sheba,Verse 29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.Verse 30Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.Verse 31These are the sons of Shem [Name], by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations.Verse 32These are the families of the sons of Noah [Rest], by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.