>Genesis 10
>
>The Family Tree of Noah's Sons
> 1 This is the family tree of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and
> Japheth. After the flood, they
>themselves had sons.
>
> 2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech,
> Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer:
>Ashkenaz, Riphath, Togarmah.
>
> 4-5 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, Rodanim. The
> seafaring peoples developed from
>these, each in its own place by family, each with its own
>language.
>
> 6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, Canaan.
>
> 7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabteca.
>
> The sons of Raamah: Sheba, Dedan.
>
> 8-12 Cush also had Nimrod. He was the first great warrior on
> Earth. He was a great hunter before
>God. There was a saying, "Like Nimrod, a great hunter
>before God." His kingdom got its start with Babel; then Erech,
>Akkad, and Calneh in the country of
>Shinar. From there he went up to Asshur and built Nineveh,
>Rehoboth Ir, Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
>
> 13-14 Egypt was ancestor to the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim,
> the Naphtuhim, the Pathrusim, the
>Casluhim (the origin of the Philistines), and the Kaphtorim.
>
> 15-19 Canaan had Sidon his firstborn, Heth, the Jebusites, the
> Amorites, the Girgashites, the
>Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites,
>and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanites spread out, going from
>Sidon toward Gerar, as far south as
>Gaza, and then east all the way over to Sodom, Gomorrah,
>Admah, Zeboiim, and on to Lasha.
>
> 20 These are the descendants of Ham by family, language, country,
> and nation.
>
> 21 Shem, the older brother of Japheth, also had sons. Shem was
> ancestor to all the children of
>Eber.
>
> 22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
>
> 23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, Meshech.
>
> 24-25 Arphaxad had Shelah and Shelah had Eber. Eber had two sons,
> Peleg (so named because in his
>days the human race divided) and Joktan.
>
> 26-30 Joktan had Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram,
> Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
>Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab-all sons of Joktan. Their
>land goes from Mesha toward Sephar as far as the mountain ranges in the east.
>
> 31 These are the descendants of Shem by family, language, country,
> and nation.
>
> 32 This is the family tree of the sons of Noah as they developed
> into nations. From them nations
>developed all across the Earth after the flood.
>
>Genesis 11
>
>"God Turned Their Language into 'Babble'"
> 1-2 At one time, the whole Earth spoke the same language. It so
> happened that as they moved out of
>the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar
>and settled down.
>
> 3 They said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and fire them
> well." They used brick for stone
>and tar for mortar.
>
> 4 Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower
> that reaches Heaven. Let's make
>ourselves famous so we won't be scattered here and there
>across the Earth."
>
> 5 God came down to look over the city and the tower those people had built.
>
> 6-9 God took one look and said, "One people, one language; why,
> this is only a first step. No
>telling what they'll come up with next-they'll stop at nothing!
>Come, we'll go down and garble their speech so they won't understand
>each other." Then God scattered
>them from there all over the world. And they had to
>quit building the city. That's how it came to be called Babel,
>because there God turned their
>language into "babble." From there God scattered them all
>over the world.
>
>10-11 This is the story of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he had
>Arphaxad. It was two years
>after the flood. After he had Arphaxad, he lived 500 more
>years and had other sons and daughters.
>
> 12-13 When Arphaxad was thirty-five years old, he had Shelah.
> After Arphaxad had Shelah, he lived
>403 more years and had other sons and daughters.
>
> 14-15 When Shelah was thirty years old, he had Eber. After Shelah
> had Eber, he lived 403 more years
>and had other sons and daughters.
>
> 16-17 When Eber was thirty-four years old, he had Peleg. After
> Eber had Peleg, he lived 430 more
>years and had other sons and daughters.
>
> 18-19 When Peleg was thirty years old, he had Reu. After he had
> Reu, he lived 209 more years and
>had other sons and daughters.
>
> 20-21 When Reu was thirty-two years old, he had Serug. After Reu
> had Serug, he lived 207 more years
>and had other sons and daughters.
>
> 22-23 When Serug was thirty years old, he had Nahor. After Serug
> had Nahor, he lived 200 more years
>and had other sons and daughters.
>
> 24-25 When Nahor was twenty-nine years old, he had Terah. After
> Nahor had Terah, he lived 119 more
>years and had other sons and daughters.
>
> 26 When Terah was seventy years old, he had Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
>
>The Family Tree of Terah
>27-28 This is the story of Terah. Terah had Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
>
> Haran had Lot. Haran died before his father, Terah, in the
> country of his family, Ur of the
>Chaldees.
>
> 29 Abram and Nahor each got married. Abram's wife was Sarai;
> Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter
>of his brother Haran. Haran had two daughters, Milcah
>and Iscah.
>
> 30 Sarai was barren; she had no children.
>
> 31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and
> Sarai his daughter-in-law (his son
>Abram's wife) and set out with them from Ur of the
>Chaldees for the land of Canaan. But when they got as far as Haran,
>they settled down there.
>
> 32 Terah lived 205 years. He died in Haran.
>
>Genesis 12
>
>Abram and Sarai
> 1 God told Abram: "Leave your country, your family, and your
> father's home for a land that I will
>show you.
>
> 2-3 I'll make you a great nation
> and bless you.
> I'll make you famous;
> you'll be a blessing.
> I'll bless those who bless you;
> those who curse you I'll curse.
> All the families of the Earth
> will be blessed through you."
>
> 4-6 So Abram left just as God said, and Lot left with him. Abram
> was seventy-five years old when he
>left Haran. Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew
>Lot with him, along with all the possessions and people they had
>gotten in Haran, and set out for
>the land of Canaan and arrived safe and sound.
>
> Abram passed through the country as far as Shechem and the Oak
> of Moreh. At that time the
>Canaanites occupied the land.
>
> 7 God appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your
> children." Abram built an altar at
>the place God had appeared to him.
>
> 8 He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and
> pitched his tent between Bethel to
>the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there
>and prayed to God.
>
> 9 Abram kept moving, steadily making his way south, to the Negev.
>
> 10-13 Then a famine came to the land. Abram went down to Egypt to
> live; it was a hard famine. As he
>drew near to Egypt, he said to his wife, Sarai, "Look.
>We both know that you're a beautiful woman. When the Egyptians see
>you they're going to say, 'Aha!
>That's his wife!' and kill me. But they'll let you live.
>Do me a favor: tell them you're my sister. Because of you, they'll
>welcome me and let me live."
>
> 14-15 When Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians took one look and
> saw that his wife was stunningly
>beautiful. Pharaoh's princes raved over her to Pharaoh.
>She was taken to live with Pharaoh.
>
> 16-17 Because of her, Abram got along very well: he accumulated
> sheep and cattle, male and female
>donkeys, men and women servants, and camels. But God
>hit Pharaoh hard because of Abram's wife Sarai; everybody in the
>palace got seriously sick.
>
> 18-19 Pharaoh called for Abram, "What's this that you've done to
> me? Why didn't you tell me that
>she's your wife? Why did you say, 'She's my sister' so
>that I'd take her as my wife? Here's your wife back-take her and get out!"
>
> 20 Pharaoh ordered his men to get Abram out of the country. They
> sent him and his wife and
>everything he owned on their way.
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