Genesis 10

• 1. This is the history of the families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the three sons of Noah. Many children were born to them after the Flood.
• 2. The descendants of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
• 3. The descendants of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
• 4. The descendants of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
• 5. Their descendants became the seafaring peoples in various lands, each tribe with its own language.
• 6. The descendants of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
• 7. The descendants of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
• 8. One of Cush's descendants was Nimrod, who became a heroic warrior.
• 9. He was a mighty hunter in the LORD's sight. His name became proverbial, and people would speak of someone as being "like Nimrod, a mighty hunter in the LORD's sight."
• 10. He built the foundation for his empire in the land of Babylonia, with the cities of Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh.
• 11. From there he extended his reign to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
• 12. and Resen--the main city of the empire, located between Nineveh and Calah.
• 13. Mizraim was the ancestor of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
• 14. Pathrusites, Casluhites, and the Caphtorites, from whom the Philistines came.
• 15. Canaan's oldest son was Sidon, the ancestor of the Sidonians. Canaan was also the ancestor of the Hittites,
• 16. Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
• 17. Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
• 18. Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites.
• 19. Eventually the territory of Canaan spread from Sidon to Gerar, near Gaza, and to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, near Lasha.
• 20. These were the descendants of Ham, identified according to their tribes, languages, territories, and nations.
• 21. Sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth. Shem was the ancestor of all the descendants of Eber.
• 22. The descendants of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
• 23. The descendants of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
• 24. Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.
• 25. Eber had two sons. The first was named Peleg--"division"--for during his lifetime the people of the world were divided into different language groups and dispersed. His brother's name was Joktan.
• 26. Joktan was the ancestor of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
• 27. Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
• 28. Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
• 29. Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab.
• 30. The descendants of Joktan lived in the area extending from Mesha toward the eastern hills of Sephar.
• 31. These were the descendants of Shem, identified according to their tribes, languages, territories, and nations.
• 32. These are the families that came from Noah's sons, listed nation by nation according to their lines of descent. The earth was populated with the people of these nations after the Flood.

Genesis 11

• 1. At one time the whole world spoke a single language and used the same words.
• 2. As the people migrated eastward, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.
• 3. They began to talk about construction projects. "Come," they said, "let's make great piles of burnt brick and collect natural asphalt to use as mortar.
• 4. Let's build a great city with a tower that reaches to the skies--a monument to our greatness! This will bring us together and keep us from scattering all over the world."
• 5. But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
• 6. "Look!" he said. "If they can accomplish this when they have just begun to take advantage of their common language and political unity, just think of what they will do later. Nothing will be impossible for them!
• 7. Come, let's go down and give them different languages. Then they won't be able to understand each other."
• 8. In that way, the LORD scattered them all over the earth; and that ended the building of the city.
• 9. That is why the city was called Babel, because it was there that the LORD confused the people by giving them many languages, thus scattering them across the earth.
• 10. This is the history of Shem's family. When Shem was 100 years old, his son Arphaxad was born. This happened two years after the Flood.
• 11. After the birth of Arphaxad, Shem lived another 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
• 12. When Arphaxad was 35 years old, his son Shelah was born.
• 13. After the birth of Shelah, Arphaxad lived another 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
• 14. When Shelah was 30 years old, his son Eber was born.
• 15. After the birth of Eber, Shelah lived another 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
• 16. When Eber was 34 years old, his son Peleg was born.
• 17. After the birth of Peleg, Eber lived another 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
• 18. When Peleg was 30 years old, his son Reu was born.
• 19. After the birth of Reu, Peleg lived another 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
• 20. When Reu was 32 years old, his son Serug was born.
• 21. After the birth of Serug, Reu lived another 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
• 22. When Serug was 30 years old, his son Nahor was born.
• 23. After the birth of Nahor, Serug lived another 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
• 24. When Nahor was 29 years old, his son Terah was born.
• 25. After the birth of Terah, Nahor lived another 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
• 26. When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
• 27. This is the history of Terah's family. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran had a son named Lot.
• 28. But while Haran was still young, he died in Ur of the Chaldeans, the place of his birth. He was survived by Terah, his father.
• 29. Meanwhile, Abram married Sarai, and his brother Nahor married Milcah, the daughter of their brother Haran. (Milcah had a sister named Iscah.)
• 30. Now Sarai was not able to have any children.
• 31. Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai, and his grandson Lot (his son Haran's child) and left Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But they stopped instead at the village of Haran and settled there.
• 32. Terah lived for 205 years and died while still at Haran.

Genesis 12

• 1. Then the LORD told Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's house, and go to the land that I will show you.
• 2. I will cause you to become the father of a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and I will make you a blessing to others.
• 3. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you."
• 4. So Abram departed as the LORD had instructed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
• 5. He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all his wealth--his livestock and all the people who had joined his household at Haran--and finally arrived in Canaan.
• 6. Traveling through Canaan, they came to a place near Shechem and set up camp beside the oak at Moreh. At that time, the area was inhabited by Canaanites.
• 7. Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I am going to give this land to your offspring. "And Abram built an altar there to commemorate the LORD's visit.
• 8. After that, Abram traveled southward and set up camp in the hill country between Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar and worshiped the LORD.
• 9. Then Abram traveled south by stages toward the Negev.
• 10. At that time there was a severe famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to wait it out.
• 11. As he was approaching the borders of Egypt, Abram said to Sarai, "You are a very beautiful woman.
• 12. When the Egyptians see you, they will say, `This is his wife. Let's kill him; then we can have her!'
• 13. But if you say you are my sister, then the Egyptians will treat me well because of their interest in you, and they will spare my life."
• 14. And sure enough, when they arrived in Egypt, everyone spoke of her beauty.
• 15. When the palace officials saw her, they sang her praises to their king, the pharaoh, and she was taken into his harem.
• 16. Then Pharaoh gave Abram many gifts because of her--sheep, cattle, donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.
• 17. But the LORD sent a terrible plague upon Pharaoh's household because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
• 18. So Pharaoh called for Abram and accused him sharply. "What is this you have done to me?" he demanded. "Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?
• 19. Why were you willing to let me marry her, saying she was your sister? Here is your wife! Take her and be gone!"
• 20. Pharaoh then sent them out of the country under armed escort--Abram and his wife, with all their household and belongings.

New Living Translation: 4 of 324 days.