Genesis 9:1-11:32
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And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, q "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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r The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.
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s Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And t as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
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But you shall not eat flesh with its u life, that is, its blood.
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And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: v from every beast I will require it and w from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
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x "Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
y for God made man in his own image.
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And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem on the earth and multiply in it."
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Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,
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"Behold, z I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you,
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and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth.
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a I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."
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And God said, b "This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:
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I have set c my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
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When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,
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d I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
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When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember e the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
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God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
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The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were f Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
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These three were the sons of Noah, and g from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.
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Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.
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He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.
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Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
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When Noah awoke from his wine h and knew what his youngest son had done to him,
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he said,
i "Cursed be Canaan;
j a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers."
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He also said,
"Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem;
and let Canaan be his servant.
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May God enlarge Japheth,
and let him dwell in the tents of Shem,
and let Canaan be his servant."
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After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
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All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.
Genesis 10
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These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
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k The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
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The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
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The sons of Javan: Elishah, l Tarshish, m Kittim, and Dodanim.
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From these n the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.
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o The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
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The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
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Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.
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He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord."
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The beginning of his kingdom was p Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in q the land of Shinar.
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From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and
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Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
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r Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
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Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and s Caphtorim.
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t Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,
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and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
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the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
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the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed.
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And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
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These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
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To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born.
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The u sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
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The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
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Arpachshad fathered v Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber.
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w To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.
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Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
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Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
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Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
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x Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
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The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east.
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These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
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These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, y and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11
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Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.
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And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in z the land of Shinar and settled there.
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And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, a and bitumen for mortar.
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Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower b with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth."
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And c the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
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And the Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
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Come, d let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech."
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So e the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
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Therefore its name was called f Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
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g These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.
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And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah.
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And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber.
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And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg.
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And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu.
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And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug.
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And Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor.
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And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
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When h Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah.
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And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
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When h Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.
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Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
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And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was i Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, j Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
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Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.
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Terah k took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together l from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
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The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.
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Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
Genesis 8:17
Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh - birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth - that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.
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Psalms 8:6 - 8
You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet.
James 3:7
For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind.
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Deuteronomy 12:15
However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.
1 Timothy 4:3 - 4
Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
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Genesis 1:29
And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.
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Leviticus 17:10 - 11
If any one of the house of Israel or of the str...
Leviticus 17:14
For the life of every creature is its blood: it...
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pou...
Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for...
1 Samuel 14:33
Then they told Saul, "Behold, the people are si...
Acts 15:20
But should write to them to abstain from the th...
Acts 15:29
That you abstain from what has been sacrificed ...
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Exodus 21:28
When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.
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Genesis 4:10 - 11
And the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
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Exodus 21:12
Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be ...
Exodus 21:14
But if a man willfully attacks another to kill ...
Leviticus 24:17
Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put ...
Numbers 35:31
Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the li...
Numbers 35:33
You shall not pollute the land in which you liv...
Matthew 26:52
Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back in...
Revelation 13:10
If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity ...
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Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
James 3:9
With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.
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Genesis 6:18
But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 8:20 - 22
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
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Isaiah 54:9 - 10
This is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, and will not rebuke you.
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Genesis 17:11
You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
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Ezekiel 1:28
Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
Revelation 4:3
And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.
Revelation 10:1
Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.
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Leviticus 26:42
Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
Leviticus 26:45
But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.
1 Kings 8:23
And said, "O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart.
Ezekiel 16:60
Yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
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Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Genesis 17:13
Both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
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Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 10:1
These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
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Genesis 10:32
These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
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Habakkuk 2:15
Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink - you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
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Deuteronomy 27:16
"'Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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Joshua 9:23
Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
Judges 1:28
When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.
1 Kings 9:20 - 21
All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel -
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Genesis 10:1 - 5
These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
1 Chronicles 1:5 - 7
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Ezekiel 38:1 - 6
The word of the Lord came to me:
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Psalms 72:10
May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!
Ezekiel 38:13
Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders will say to you, 'Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?
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Numbers 24:24
But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he too shall come to utter destruction.
Isaiah 23:1
The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.
Isaiah 23:12
And he said: "You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon; arise, cross over to Cyprus, even there you will have no rest.
Daniel 11:30
For ships of Kittim shall come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw, and shall turn back and be enraged and take action against the holy covenant. He shall turn back and pay attention to those who forsake the holy covenant.
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Isaiah 11:11
In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
Jeremiah 2:10
For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing.
Jeremiah 25:22
All the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea.
Ezekiel 27:6
Of oaks of Bashan they made your oars; they made your deck of pines from the coasts of Cyprus, inlaid with ivory.
Zephaniah 2:11
The Lord will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
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Genesis 10:6 - 8
The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
1 Chronicles 1:8 - 10
The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
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Genesis 11:9
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
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Genesis 11:2
And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
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Genesis 10:13 - 18
Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim.
1 Chronicles 1:11 - 16
Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim.
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Deuteronomy 2:23
As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.)
Jeremiah 47:4
Because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the Lord is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
Amos 9:7
Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?" declares the Lord. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?
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Genesis 15:18 - 21
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
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Genesis 10:22 - 29
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
1 Chronicles 1:17 - 25
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. And the sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
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Genesis 11:12
When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah.
Luke 3:35 - 36
The son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah.
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1 Chronicles 1:19
To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and his brother's name was Joktan.
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1 Kings 9:28
And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.
1 Kings 10:11
Moreover, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.
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Genesis 10:1
These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 9:19
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.
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Genesis 10:10
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, ...
Genesis 14:1
In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch ...
Genesis 14:9
With Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of G...
Isaiah 11:11
In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a...
Daniel 1:2
And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into ...
Zechariah 5:11
He said to me, "To the land of Shinar, to build...
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Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the hill country.
Exodus 2:3
When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.
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Deuteronomy 1:28
Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."
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Genesis 18:21
I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know.
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Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
Psalms 2:4
He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.
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Genesis 10:25
To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.
Genesis 10:32
These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
Luke 1:51
He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
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Genesis 10:10
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
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Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 11:10 - 26
These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.
1 Chronicles 1:17 - 27
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. And the sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
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Joshua 24:2
And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.
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Genesis 11:24
When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah.
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Genesis 17:15
And God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
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Genesis 22:20
Now after these things it was told to Abraham, "Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
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Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
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Genesis 15:7
And he said to him, "I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.
Joshua 24:2
And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.
Nehemiah 9:7
You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
Acts 7:2
And Stephen said: "Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.
Acts 7:4
Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.
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