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Book of Genesis                                                                            13


               6 And the Sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram,       22 The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and
             and Phuth, and Chanaan.                        Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
               7 And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila,       23 The sons of Aram: Us, and Hull, and
             and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabatacha. The Gether; and Mes.
             sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.                   24 But Arphaxad begot Sale, of whom was
               8 Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be      born Heber.
             mighty on the earth.                              25 And to Heber were born two sons: the
               9 And he was a stout hunter before the Lord.  name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days
             Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the       was the earth divided: and his brother’s name
             stout hunter before the Lord.                  Jectan.
               10 And the beginning of his kingdom was         26 Which Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph,
             Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne
                                                            and Asarmoth, Jare,
             in the land of Sennaar.
                                                               27 And Aduram, and Uzal, and Decla,
               11 Out of that land came forth Assur, and
                                                               28 And Ebal, and Abimael, Saba,
             built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and
                                                               29 And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All
             Chale.
                                                            these were the sons of Jectan.
               12 Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this
                                                               30 And their dwelling was from Messa as we
             is the great city.
                                                            go on as far as Sephar, a mountain in the east.
               13 And Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim
             and Laabim, Nephthuim.                            31 These are the children of Sem according
                                                            to their kindreds and tongues, and countries in
               14 And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of whom
             came forth the Philistines, and the Capthorim.  their nations.
               15 And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn,        32 These are the families of Noe, according
             the Hethite,                                   to their people and nations. By these were the
               16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and  nations divided on the earth after the flood.
             the Gergesite.
               17 The Hevite and Aracite: the Sinite,
               18 And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the    Chapter 11
             Hamathite: and afterwards the families of the
             Chanaanites were spread abroad.                And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same
               19 And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon  speech.
             as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou   2 And when they removed from the east, they
             enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and       found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt
             Seboim even to Lesa.                           in it.
               20 These are the children of Cham in their kin-  3 And each one said to his neighbour: Come
             dreds and tongues, and generations, and lands, let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And
             and nations.                                   they had brick instead of stones, and slime in-
               21 Of Sem also the father of all the children of stead of mortar:
             Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were    4 And they said: Come, let us make a city and
             born.                                          a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven;
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