KJV King James Version
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
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Genesis 10:6
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
WEB World English Bible
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
ASV American Standard Version
And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And sons of Ham are Cush, and Mitzraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
Surrounding context — Genesis 10
3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
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1 Chronicles 1:8-16The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.Psalm 105:23Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.Psalm 78:51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of Ham:Psalm 105:27They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.Genesis 9:22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.Isaiah 11:11And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.1 Chronicles 4:40And they found fat pasture and good, and the land [was] wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for [they] of Ham had dwelt there of old.Jeremiah 46:9Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle [and] bend the bow.Ezekiel 27:10They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.Psalm 106:22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [and] terrible things by the Red sea.
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