explain the contr{10:1} Now these [are] the generations of the sons of
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons
born after the flood. {10:2} The sons of Japheth; Gomer,
and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and
Meshech, and Tiras. {10:3} And the sons of Gomer;
Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. {10:4} And the
sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
{10:5} By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in
their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families,
in their nations.
{10:6} And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and
Phut, and Canaan. {10:7} And the sons of Cush; Seba, and
Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the
sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. {10:8} And Cush begat
Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. {10:9}
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is
said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
{10:10} And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and
Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
{10:11} Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded
Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, {10:12} And
Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great
city. {10:13} And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and
Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, {10:14} And Pathrusim, and
Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
{10:15} And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
{10:16} And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the
Girgasite, {10:17} And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the
Sinite, {10:18} And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the
Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the
Canaanites spread abroad. {10:19} And the border of the
Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto
Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and
Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. {10:20} These [are]
the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in
their countries, [and] in their nations.
{10:21} Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of
Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were
[children] born. {10:22} The children of Shem; Elam, and
Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. {10:23} And
the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
{10:24} And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
{10:25} And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of
one [was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and
his brother’s name [was] Joktan. {10:26} And Joktan begat
Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazar-maveth, and Jerah,
{10:27} And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, {10:28} And
Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, {10:29} And Ophir, and
Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were] the sons of Joktan.
{10:30} And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest
unto Sephar a mount of the east. {10:31} These [are] the
sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in
their lands, after their nations. {10:32} These [are] the
families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their
nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth
after the flood.
{11:1} And the whole earth was of one language, and of
one speech. {11:2} And it came to pass, as they journeyed
from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar;
and they dwelt there. {11:3} And they said one to another,
Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they
had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. {11:4}
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a
name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the
whole earth. {11:5} And the LORD came down to see the
city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
{11:6} And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one,
and they have all one language; and this they begin to do:
and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they
have imagined to do. {11:7} Go to, let us go down, and
there confound their language, that they may not understand
one another’s speech. {11:8} So the LORD scattered them
abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they
left off to build the city. {11:9} Therefore is the name of it
called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the
language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD
scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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