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Genesis
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English: Basic English Bible |
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Genesis 10 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters |
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The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. |
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And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah. |
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And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim. |
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From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages. |
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And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. |
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And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. |
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And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth. |
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He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman. |
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And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. |
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From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah, |
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And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great town. |
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And Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim; |
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And Pathrusim and Casluhim and Caphtorim, from whom came the Philistines. |
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