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- Now these are the generations of the sonnes of Noah;
Shem, Ham, and Iaphet: and vnto them were sonnes borne after the Flood.
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- The sonnes of Iaphet: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Iauan, & Tubal, and Meshech, & Tiras.
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- And the sonnes of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
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- And the sons of Iauan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
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- By these were the Iles of the Gentiles diuided in their lands, euery one after his tongue: after their families, in their nations.
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- And the sonnes of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
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- And the sonnes of Cush, Seba, and Hauilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sonnes of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
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- And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
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- He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is saide, Euen as Nimrod the mightie hunter before the LORD.
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- And the beginning of his kingdome was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
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- Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineueh, and the citie Rehoboth, and Calah,
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- And Resen betweene Nineueh and Calah: the same is a great citie.
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- And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
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- And Pathrusim, and Casluhim (out of whome came Philistiim) and Caphtorim.
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- And Canaan begate Sidon his first borne, and Heth,
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- And the Iebusite, and the Emorite, and the Girgasite,
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- And the Hiuite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
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- And the Aruadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
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- And the border of the Canaanites, was from Sidon, as thou commest to Gerar, vnto Gaza, as thou goest vnto Sodoma and Gomorah, and Admah, & Zeboim, euen vnto Lasha.
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- These are the sonnes of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
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- Unto Shem also the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Iaphet the elder, euen to him were children borne.
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- The children of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
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- And the children of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
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- And Arphaxad begate Salah, and Salah begate Eber.
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- And vnto Eber were borne two sonnes: the name of one was Peleg, for in his dayes was the earth diuided, and his brothers name was Ioktan.
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- And Ioktan begate Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaueth, and Ierah,
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- And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
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- And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
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- And Ophir, and Hauilah, & Iobab: all these were the sonnes of Ioktan.
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- And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest vnto Sephar, a mount of the East.
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- These are the sonnes of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands after their nations.
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- These are the families of the sonnes of Noah after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations diuided in the earth after the Flood.
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