{ "chapterNum": 10, "verses": [ { "verseNum": 1, "text": "This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood." }, { "verseNum": 2, "text": "The sons of Japheth:\n \n Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras." }, { "verseNum": 3, "text": "The sons of Gomer:\n \n Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah." }, { "verseNum": 4, "text": "And the sons of Javan:\n \n Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites." }, { "verseNum": 5, "text": "From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations." }, { "verseNum": 6, "text": "The sons of Ham:\n \n Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan." }, { "verseNum": 7, "text": "The sons of Cush:\n \n Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca.\n \nAnd the sons of Raamah:\n \n Sheba and Dedan." }, { "verseNum": 8, "text": "Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth." }, { "verseNum": 9, "text": "He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”" }, { "verseNum": 10, "text": "His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." }, { "verseNum": 11, "text": "From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah," }, { "verseNum": 12, "text": "and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah." }, { "verseNum": 13, "text": "Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites," }, { "verseNum": 14, "text": "the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites." }, { "verseNum": 15, "text": "And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites," }, { "verseNum": 16, "text": "the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites," }, { "verseNum": 17, "text": "the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites," }, { "verseNum": 18, "text": "the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.\n \nLater the Canaanite clans were scattered," }, { "verseNum": 19, "text": "and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha." }, { "verseNum": 20, "text": "These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations." }, { "verseNum": 21, "text": "And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber." }, { "verseNum": 22, "text": "The sons of Shem:\n \n Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram." }, { "verseNum": 23, "text": "The sons of Aram:\n \n Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash." }, { "verseNum": 24, "text": "Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber." }, { "verseNum": 25, "text": "Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan." }, { "verseNum": 26, "text": "And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah," }, { "verseNum": 27, "text": "Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah," }, { "verseNum": 28, "text": "Obal, Abimael, Sheba," }, { "verseNum": 29, "text": "Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan." }, { "verseNum": 30, "text": "Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country." }, { "verseNum": 31, "text": "These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations." }, { "verseNum": 32, "text": "All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood." } ] }