Families Dispersed

Families and Nations · Genesis 10

Story guide: Pastoral households traveling separate routes across a broad valley, visual essay on dispersed families.

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21And to Shem also, the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, children were born.

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

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

24Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.

25And to Eber two sons were born: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.

26Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, and Jerah.

27and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah.

28and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba.

29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

30And their settlement was from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the hill country of the east.

31These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, by their languages, in their lands, by their nations.

32These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, by their nations; and from these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.

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