The Descendants of Ham

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The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

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The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

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Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

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He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

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His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

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and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.

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Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,

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the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.

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And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

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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. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,

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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.

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These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.