Genesis
Chapters 10-11
The Descendants of Noah's Sons
1These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. These three had sons after the flood.
2The sons of Japheth—Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras—were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
3The descendants of Gomer were the people of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4The descendants of Javan were the people of Elishah, Spain, Cyprus, and Rhodes;
5they were the ancestors of the people who live along the coast and on the islands. These are the descendants of Japheth, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language.
6The sons of Ham—Cush, Egypt, Libya, and Canaan—were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
7The descendants of Cush were the people of Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were the people of Sheba and Dedan.
8Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the world's first great conqueror.
9By the Lord's help he was a great hunter, and that is why people say, “May the Lord make you as great a hunter as Nimrod!”
10At first his kingdom included Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all three of them in Babylonia.
11From that land he went to Assyria and built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
12and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
13The descendants of Egypt were the people of Lydia, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,
14Pathrus, Casluh, and of Crete, from whom the Philistines are descended.
15Canaan's sons—Sidon, the oldest, and Heth—were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
16Canaan was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. The different tribes of the Canaanites spread out,
19until the Canaanite borders reached from Sidon southward to Gerar near Gaza, and eastward to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim near Lasha.
20These are the descendants of Ham, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language.
21Shem, the older brother of Japheth, was the ancestor of all the Hebrews.
22Shem's sons—Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram—were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
23The descendants of Aram were the people of Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshek.
24Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, who was the father of Eber.
25Eber had two sons: one was named Peleg, because during his time the people of the world were divided; and the other was named Joktan.
26The descendants of Joktan were the people of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
28Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All of them were descended from Joktan.
30The land in which they lived extended from Mesha to Sephar in the eastern hill country.
31These are the descendants of Shem, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language.
32All these peoples are the descendants of Noah, nation by nation, according to their different lines of descent. After the flood all the nations of the earth were descended from the sons of Noah.
Genesis Chapter 11
The Tower of Babylon
1At first, the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words.
2As they wandered about in the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia and settled there.
3They said to one another, “Come on! Let's make bricks and bake them hard.” So they had bricks to build with and tar to hold them together.
4They said, “Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth.”
5Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which they had built,
6and he said, “Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want!
7Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other.”
8So the Lord scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9The city was called Babylon, because there the Lord mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.
The Descendants of Shem
10These are the descendants of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he had a son, Arpachshad.
11After that, he lived another 500 years and had other children.
12When Arpachshad was 35 years old, he had a son, Shelah;
13after that, he lived another 403 years and had other children.
14When Shelah was 30 years old, he had a son, Eber;
15after that, he lived another 403 years and had other children.
16When Eber was 34 years old, he had a son, Peleg;
17after that, he lived another 430 years and had other children.
18When Peleg was 30 years old, he had a son, Reu;
19after that, he lived another 209 years and had other children.
20When Reu was 32 years old, he had a son, Serug;
21after that, he lived another 207 years and had other children.
22When Serug was 30 years old, he had a son, Nahor;
23after that, he lived another 200 years and had other children.
24When Nahor was 29 years old, he had a son, Terah;
25after that, he lived another 119 years and had other children.
26After Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
The Descendants of Terah
27These are the descendants of Terah, who was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran was the father of Lot,
28and Haran died in his hometown of Ur in Babylonia, while his father was still living.
29Abram married Sarai, and Nahor married Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.
30Sarai was not able to have children.
31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, who was the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, Abram's wife, and with them he left the city of Ur in Babylonia to go to the land of Canaan. They went as far as Haran and settled there.
32Terah died there at the age of 205.
Psalms
Chapter 2
God's Chosen King
1Why do the nations plan rebellion? Why do people make their useless plots?
2Their kings revolt, their rulers plot together against the Lord and against the king he chose.
3“Let us free ourselves from their rule,” they say; “let us throw off their control.”
4From his throne in heaven the Lord laughs and mocks their feeble plans.
5Then he warns them in anger and terrifies them with his fury.
6“On Zion, my sacred hill,” he says, “I have installed my king.”
7“I will announce,” says the king, “what the Lord has declared. He said to me: ‘You are my son; today I have become your father.
8Ask, and I will give you all the nations; the whole earth will be yours.
9You will break them with an iron rod; you will shatter them in pieces like a clay pot.’”
10Now listen to this warning, you kings; learn this lesson, you rulers of the world:
11Serve the Lord with fear; tremble
12and bow down to him; or else his anger will be quickly aroused, and you will suddenly die. Happy are all who go to him for protection.