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| 1 | Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. | 
| 2 | The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and 1Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and 
Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
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| 3 | And the sons of Gomer; 1Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
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| 4 | And the sons of 1Javan; Elishah, 
and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
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| 5 | By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. | 
| 6 | And the sons of 1Ham; Cush, and 
Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
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| 7 | And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. | 
| 8 | And Cush begat aNimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. | 
| 9 | He was a mighty ahunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. | 
| 10 | And the beginning of his 1kingdom was aBabel, and Erech, 
and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of bShinar.
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| 11 | Out of that land went forth aAsshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, | 
| 12 | And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. | 
| 13 | And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, | 
| 14 | And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. | 
| 15 | And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and 1Heth,
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| 16 | And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, | 
| 17 | And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, | 
| 18 | And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. | 
| 19 | And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. | 
| 20 | These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. | 
| 21 | Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of aEber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. | 
| 22 | The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. | 
| 23 | And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. | 
| 24 | And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. | 
| 25 | And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. | 
| 26 | And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, | 
| 27 | And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, | 
| 28 | And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, | 
| 29 | And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan. | 
| 30 | And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east. | 
| 31 | These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. | 
| 32 | These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, 
in their nations: and by these were the nations 1divided in the earth after the 
flood.
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(a) "Nimrod" - from the Hebrew "Marad", meaning "to rebel".
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(a) "hunter" = hunter of men - see Jeremiah 16:16
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