Genesis 10:6-15

Nations Descended from Noah

6 o The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. 1 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord." 10 The beginning of his kingdom was p Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in q the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and 12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. 13 r Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom 2 the Philistines came), and s Caphtorim.

15 t Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,

  1. Cross References
    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.
  2. Cross References
    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.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 11:2
    And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 10:13 - 18
    Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim.
    1 Chronicles 1:11 - 16
    Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim.
  5. Cross References
    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?
  6. Cross References
    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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