Category: Genesis

[9:18] The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)

[9:19] These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.

[9:20] Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.

[9:21] He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.

[9:22] And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.

[9:23] Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.

[9:24] When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him,

[9:25] he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

[9:26] He also said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.

[9:27] May God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.”

[9:28] After the flood Noah lived 350 years.

[9:29] All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.

[10:1] These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

[10:2] The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

[10:3] The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

[10:4] The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

[10:5] From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

[10:6] The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

[10:7] The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

[10:8] Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.

[10:9] He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.”

[10:10] The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

[10:11] From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and

[10:12] Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

[10:13] Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

[10:14] Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim.

[10:15] Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,

[10:16] and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

[10:17] the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

[10:18] the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed.

[10:19] And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

[10:20] These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

[10:21] To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born.

[10:22] The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

[10:23] The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

[10:24] Arpachshad fathered Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber.

[10:25] To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

[10:26] Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

[10:27] Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

[10:28] Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

[10:29] Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

[10:30] The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east.

[10:31] These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

[10:32] These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

[11:1] Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.

[11:2] And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

[11:3] And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

[11:4] Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”

[11:5] And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.

[11:6] And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

[11:7] Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

[11:8] So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

[11:9] Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

[11:10] These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

[11:11] And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

[11:12] When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah.

[11:13] And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

[11:14] When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber.

[11:15] And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

[11:16] When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg.

[11:17] And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

[11:18] When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu.

[11:19] And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

[11:20] When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug.

[11:21] And Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

[11:22] When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor.

[11:23] And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

[11:24] When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah.

[11:25] And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

[11:26] When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

[11:27] Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

[11:28] Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

[11:29] And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.

[11:30] Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.

[11:31] Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

[11:32] The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.

[12:1] Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.

[12:2] And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

[12:3] I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

[12:4] So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

[12:5] And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

[12:6] Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

[12:7] Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

[12:8] From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

[12:9] And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.

[12:10] Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

[12:11] When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,

[12:12] and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

[12:13] Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.”

[12:14] When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

[12:15] And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

[12:16] And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

[12:17] But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

[12:18] So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

[12:19] Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.”

[12:20] And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.

[13:1] So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.

[13:2] Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

[13:3] And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

[13:4] to the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon the name of the Lord.

[13:5] And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents,

[13:6] so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together,

[13:7] and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land.

[13:8] Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.

[13:9] Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.”

[13:10] And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

[13:11] So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other.

[13:12] Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

[13:13] Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

[13:14] The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

[13:15] for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.

[13:16] I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.

[13:17] Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.”

[13:18] So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.

[14:1] In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,

[14:2] these kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

[14:3] And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

[14:4] Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

[14:5] In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-Kiriathaim,

[14:6] and the Horites in their hill country of Seir as far as El-Paran on the border of the wilderness.

[14:7] Then they turned back and came to En-Mishpat (that is, Kadesh) and defeated all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were dwelling in Hazazon-Tamar.

[14:8] Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim

[14:9] with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.

[14:10] Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the hill country.

[14:11] So the enemy took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way.

[14:12] They also took Lot, the son of Abram’s brother, who was dwelling in Sodom, and his possessions, and went their way.

[14:13] Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.

[14:14] When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

[14:15] And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.

[14:16] Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people.

[14:17] After his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

[14:18] And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)

[14:19] And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;

[14:20] and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

[14:21] And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself.”

[14:22] But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted my hand to the Lord, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,

[14:23] that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

[14:24] I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me. Let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share.”