Genesis 10

⁴This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made them.

⁷But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”

¹This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:

¹And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

⁹This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

²“Son of man, set your face against Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Prophesy against him

⁶as well as Gomer with all its troops, and Beth-togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.

¹⁹I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. So they will proclaim My glory among the nations.

⁵The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

⁶The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

⁸and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.

¹“As for you, O son of man, prophesy against Gog and declare that this is what the Lord God says: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

¹⁴The men of Beth-togarmah exchanged horses, war horses, and mules for your wares.

²⁷“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.

³⁰Ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and rage against the holy covenant and do damage. So he will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.

²⁴Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”

¹²He said, “You shall rejoice no more, O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon. Get up and cross over to Cyprus—even there you will find no rest.”

¹This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

²⁵The ships of Tarshish carried your merchandise. And you were filled with heavy cargo in the heart of the sea.

¹²Tarshish was your merchant because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.

¹¹The Lord will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.

⁴He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”

¹⁰Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:

²²all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;

²⁰These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

¹⁰May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.

⁸The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

⁹The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

²²wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

²⁷They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

²²And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

¹¹On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

¹⁰Men of Persia, Lydia, and Put served as warriors in your army. They hung their shields and helmets on your walls; they gave you splendor.

²²The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your wares they exchanged gold, the finest of all spices, and precious stones.

¹⁵The men of Dedan were your clients; many coastlands were your market; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.

¹Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with difficult questions.

¹¹The name of the first river is the Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

¹³This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.

¹⁰May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.

⁶And they will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the blade drawn. So He will deliver us when Assyria invades our land and marches into our borders.

²²In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the Lord.

¹¹Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.

³⁰As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

²⁷When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

¹³But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the Lord.

⁴The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.

⁹That is why it is called Babel, for there the Lord confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the Lord scattered them over the face of all the earth.

²And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

¹In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim

¹⁰Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!

¹At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness and recovery.

¹¹“To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”

⁶And they will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the blade drawn. So He will deliver us when Assyria invades our land and marches into our borders.

²“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”

¹This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

⁸Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah

³⁷So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

³⁶So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

⁹Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth—Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.

¹¹Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,

¹²the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.

⁵Cush, Put, and Lud, and all the various peoples, as well as Libya and the men of the covenant land, will fall with Egypt by the sword.

⁴For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the Lord is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.

¹²the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.

⁷“Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the Lord. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?

²³And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, were destroyed by the Caphtorites, who came out of Caphtor and settled in their place.)

¹This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in the land of Egypt—in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis—and in the land of Pathros:

¹¹On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

²“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:

³Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,

¹¹Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

¹³And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

³Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,

¹⁸On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

¹⁹the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

³May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

⁴And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”

⁷I will remove the blood from their mouths and the abominations from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God; they will become like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

²¹The Benjamites, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the Benjamites.

¹⁸And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

²When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

²⁴Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.

³⁰The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,

⁹“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

⁸The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.

⁹When King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer,

²²Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

²went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

²⁴Then the Lord rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens.

²⁵Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.

¹Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel.

²Their inheritance was assigned by lot for the nine and a half tribes, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.

⁸How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!

¹One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.

²“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:

³Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,

⁶The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

¹Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

²And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

²⁴Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”

¹⁰This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

¹¹And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹⁹I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. So they will proclaim My glory among the nations.

⁹Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

²A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”

³⁴This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.

³⁵This is what the Lord of Hosts says: “Behold, I will shatter Elam’s bow, the mainstay of their might.

²⁶He also declared: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.

⁶Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.

¹There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

²⁰all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

³⁵the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,

¹²When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.

¹³And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹⁹Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.

³²All 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.

⁸When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

²⁶From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

³⁵the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,

³⁶the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

¹⁶When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.

¹⁷And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

²⁰And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

²¹Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

²⁰And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

²¹Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

¹Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with difficult questions.

³Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites, and the Leummites.

²⁰And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

²¹Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

²⁸They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.

²⁴and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

⁹The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.

⁷Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

⁴⁸Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.

¹⁶It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.

⁷And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’

⁵From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.

²⁰These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

²⁶From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

²⁶From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

¹This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.

²⁹And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the Lord has cursed.”

³⁰And after he had become the father of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

²⁵Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.

¹And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.