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^(C1)The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

The sons of Cush were ^(C1)Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, ^(C2)Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were ^(C2)Sheba and ^(C3)Dedan.

Now Cush fathered Nimrod; he ^(F1)became a mighty one on the earth.

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."

And the beginning of his kingdom was ^(F1)(C1)Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of ^(C2)Shinar.

From that land he went ^(C1)to Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

Mizraim fathered ^(C1)Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

^(C1)Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.

Canaan fathered ^(C1)Sidon, his firstborn, and ^(C2)Heth,

^(C1)the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,

the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,

the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.

^(C1)The territory of the Canaanite ^(F1)extended from Sidon ^(F2)going toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; and ^(F2)going toward ^(C2)Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.