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Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
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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 generations to come:
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So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”
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The Sons of Noah
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
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These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.
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When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,
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The Table of Nations
This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.
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Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.
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He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”
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and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.
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Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.
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The Semites
Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.
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The Tower of Babel
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
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Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
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That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
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From Shem to Abram
This is the account of Shem’s family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
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Abram’s Family
This is the account of Terah’s family line. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
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Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah.
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Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.
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I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
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So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
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The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.
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Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
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Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.
