{ "1": "This is the record of {the names of} Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and the descendants they had after the flood {was over}.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\s1 Japheth’s Descendants\n\\p", "2": "Japheth’s sons {were} Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.\n\n\\p", "3": "Gomer’s sons {were} Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.\n\n\\p", "4": "Javan’s sons {were} Elishah and Tarshish, {and he was the ancestor of} the Kittites and the Dodanites.\n\n\\p", "5": "From Japheth’s {descendants} came the people groups who lived {in regions} near the {Mediterranean} Sea. They moved to different places {and settled} in their {own} territories, and each {group} spoke its own language. They each had their {own} families, which {grew and} became their own people groups.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\s1 Ham’s Descendants\n\\p", "6": "Ham’s sons {were} Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.\n\n\\p", "7": "Cush’s sons {were} Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtecah. And Raamah’s sons {were} Sheba and Dedan.\n\n\\ts\\* ", "8": "Cush {also} had {a son named} Nimrod, who was the first {person} on earth to be a powerful {ruler}. ", "9": "He was {also} a great hunter whom Yahweh blessed. That is why people say {about other great men}, “{That man is} like Nimrod, a great hunter whom Yahweh blessed.” ", "10": "Nimrod started ruling as king {over} {the cities of} Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, {which were} {all} {located} in the region of Shinar.\n\n\\ts\\* ", "11": "From there he went to {the region of} Assyria, where he built {the cities of} Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, ", "12": "and Resen, {which is located} between {the cities of} Nineveh and the great city of Calah.\n\n\\p", "13": "Mizraim was the ancestor of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, ", "14": "Pathrusites, Casluhites, and Caphtorites. The Philistines descended from the Casluhites.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p", "15": "Canaan had Sidon {who was} his firstborn {son}. {He was} also {the ancestor of} the Hittites, ", "16": "Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, ", "17": "Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, ", "18": "Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. Later, those families {that descended} from Canaan spread out,\n\n\\ts\\* ", "19": "so that the territory where they lived reached from {the city of} Sidon {in the north}, all the way {south} toward {the city of} Gerar to {the city of} Gaza, {then} as far {east} as {the cities of} Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, all the way to {the city of} Lasha.\n\n\\p", "20": "Those {people} {were} Ham’s descendants and each one had his own family. Each family {grew and} became its own people group that spoke its own language and lived in its own territory.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\s1 Shem’s Descendants\n\\p", "21": "Shem also had {some} sons. He {was} the ancestor of all the descendants of Eber, and his older brother was Japheth. ", "22": "Shem’s sons {were} Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.\n\n\\p", "23": "Aram’s sons {were} Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p", "24": "Arpachshad had {a son named} Shelah, then Shelah had {a son named} Eber. ", "25": "Then Eber had two sons. The name of the first {one} {was} Peleg, {which means “division,”} because during his lifetime {the people on} the earth divided {into separate groups} {and spread out everywhere}. Peleg’s {younger} brother’s name {was} Joktan.\n\n\\ts\\* ", "26": "Joktan had {sons named} Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ", "27": "Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ", "28": "Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ", "29": "Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. Those {were} all Joktan’s sons.\n\n\\ts\\* ", "30": "The region where they {and their descendants} lived reached from {the city of} Mesha {in the west} all the way to {the city of} Sephar, {which is in} the hill country in the east.\n\n\\p", "31": "Those {people} {are} Shem’s descendants and each one had his own family. Each family {grew and} became its own people group that spoke its own language and lived in its own territory.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p", "32": "{All} those family groups descended from Noah’s sons. Each family group had its own descendants and became its own people group. In fact, after the flood {all} the people groups on the earth descended from them and spread out everywhere.\n\n\\ts\\*", "front": "\\s1 The Descendants of Noah’s Sons\n\\sr 10:1-32\n\\r 1 Chronicles 1:4-23\n\\p" }