Genesis 10-11:9

The Table of Nations

10 These are the family records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.
2) Japheth’s sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3) Gomer’s sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4) And Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5) The coastland peoples spread out into their lands. These are Japheth’s sons by their clans, in their nations. Each group had its own language.
6) Ham’s sons: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
7) Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And Raamah’s sons: Sheba and Dedan.
8) Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first powerful man on earth.
9) He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord. That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord.”
10) His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11) From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
12) and Resen, between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
13) Mizraim fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
14) Pathrusim, Casluhim (the Philistines came from them), and Caphtorim.
15) Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, then Heth,
16) the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
17) the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
18) the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the Canaanite clans scattered.
19) The Canaanite border went from Sidon going toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and going toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.
20) These are Ham’s sons, by their clans, according to their languages, in their own lands and their nations.
21) And Shem, Japheth’s older brother, also had sons. Shem was the father of all the sons of Eber.
22) Shem’s sons were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
23) Aram’s sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
24) Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.
25) Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg, for during his days the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
26) And Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
27) Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
28) Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
29) Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were Joktan’s sons.
30) Their settlements extended from Mesha to Sephar, the eastern hill country.
31) These are Shem’s sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
32) These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.

The Tower of Babylon

11 At one time the whole earth had the same language and vocabulary.
2) As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3) They said to each other, “Come, let us make oven-fired bricks.” They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.
4) And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5) Then the Lord came down to look over the city and the tower that the men were building.
6) The Lord said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
7) Come, let Us go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
8) So from there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city. 9) Therefore its name is called Babylon, for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

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1 Corinthians 13

1.) If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2.) If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3.) If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,b]">[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4.) Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5.) It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6.) Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7.) It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8.) Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
9.) For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10.) but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
11.) When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
12.) For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13.) And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.




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Genesis 9
God’s Covenant with Noah

1.) God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
2.) The fear and terror of you will be in every living creature on the earth, every bird of the sky, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are placed under your authority.
3.) Every living creature will be food for you; as I gave the green plants, I have given you everything.
4.) However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.
5.) I will require the life of every animal and every man for your life and your blood. I will require the life of each man’s brother for a man’s life.

6.) Whoever sheds man’s blood,
his blood will be shed by man,
for God made man in His image.

7.) But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”

8.) Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
9.) “Understand that I am confirming My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
10.) and with every living creature that is with you—birds, livestock, and all wildlife of the earth that are with you—all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark.
11.) I confirm My covenant with you that never again will every creature be wiped out by the waters of a flood; there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

12.) And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all future generations:
13.) I have placed My bow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
14.) Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds,
15.) I will remember My covenant between Me and you and all the living creatures: water will never again become a flood to destroy every creature.
16.) The bow will be in the clouds, and I will look at it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all the living creatures on earth.”
17.) God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have confirmed between Me and every creature on earth.”

Prophecies about Noah’s Family

18.) Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.
19.) These three were Noah’s sons, and from them the whole earth was populated.

20.) Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard.
21.) He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
22.) Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.
23.) Then Shem and Japheth took a cloak and placed it over both their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father naked.

24.) When Noah awoke from his drinking and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
25.) he said:

Canaan will be cursed.
He will be the lowest of slaves to his brothers.

26.) He also said:

Praise the Lord, the God of Shem;
Canaan will be his slave.
27.) God will extend Japheth;
he will dwell in the tents of Shem;
Canaan will be his slave.

28.) Now Noah lived 350 years after the flood.
29.) So Noah’s life lasted 950 years; then he died.



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Genesis 5:1 - 8:22

The Line of Seth

1.) These are the family records of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;
2.) He created them male and female. When they were created, He blessed them and called them man.

3.) Adam was 130 years old when he fathered a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.
4.) Adam lived 800 years after the birth of Seth, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
5.) So Adam’s life lasted 930 years; then he died.

6.) Seth was 105 years old when he fathered Enosh.
7.) Seth lived 807 years after the birth of Enosh, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
8.) So Seth’s life lasted 912 years; then he died.

9.) Enosh was 90 years old when he fathered Kenan.
10.) Enosh lived 815 years after the birth of Kenan, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
11.) So Enosh’s life lasted 905 years; then he died.

12.) Kenan was 70 years old when he fathered Mahalalel.
13.) Kenan lived 840 years after the birth of Mahalalel, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
14.) So Kenan’s life lasted 910 years; then he died.