Through My Bible Yr 3 – March 4

Genesis 10

The Table of Nations

¹This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood. The Japhethites

² The sons ^[a] of Japheth:
Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.

³ The sons of Gomer:
Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.

⁴ The sons of Javan:
Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim and the Rodanim. ^{[b] 5}(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.) The Hamites

⁶ The sons of Ham:
Cush, Mizraim, ^[c]Put and Canaan.

⁷ The sons of Cush:
Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteca.
The sons of Raamah:
Sheba and Dedan.

⁸ Cush was the father ^[d] of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth. ⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.” ¹⁰ The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in ^[e] Shinar. ^{[f] 11} From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, ^[g] Calah ¹²and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

¹³ Mizraim was the father of
the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, ¹⁴Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.

¹⁵ Canaan was the father of
Sidon his firstborn, ^[h] and of the Hittites, ¹⁶ Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, ¹⁷ Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, ¹⁸ Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.
Later the Canaanite clans scattered ¹⁹and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

²⁰These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations. The Semites

²¹ Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was ^[i]Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.

²² The sons of Shem:
Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.

²³ The sons of Aram:
Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshech. ^[j]

²⁴ Arphaxad was the father of ^[k] Shelah,
and Shelah the father of Eber.

²⁵ Two sons were born to Eber:
One was named Peleg, ^[l]because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

²⁶ Joktan was the father of
Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ²⁹Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

³⁰The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.

³¹These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

³²These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.

Genesis 11

The Tower of Babel

¹ Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. ² As men moved eastward, ^[m] they found a plain in Shinar ^[n]and settled there.

³ They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. ⁴Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

⁵ But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. ⁶ The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. ⁷Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

⁸ So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. ⁹ That is why it was called Babel ^[o] —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Footnotes:

1. Genesis 10:2 Sons may mean descendants or successors or nations ; also in verses 3, 4, 6, 7, 20-23, 29 and 31.
2. Genesis 10:4 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text and Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:7 most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text Dodanim
3. Genesis 10:6 That is, Egypt; also in verse 13
4. Genesis 10:8 Father may mean ancestor or predecessor or founder ; also in verses 13, 15, 24 and 26.
5. Genesis 10:10 Or Erech and Akkad-all of them in
6. Genesis 10:10 That is, Babylonia
7. Genesis 10:11 Or Nineveh with its city squares
8. Genesis 10:15 Or of the Sidonians, the foremost
9. Genesis 10:21 Or Shem, the older brother of
10. Genesis 10:23 See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:17; Hebrew Mash
11. Genesis 10:24 Hebrew; Septuagint father of Cainan, and Cainan was the father of
12. Genesis 10:25 Peleg means division .
13. Genesis 11:2 Or from the east ; or in the east
14. Genesis 11:2 That is, Babylonia
15. Genesis 11:9 That is, Babylon; Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused .

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