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After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
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Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
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On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
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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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Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.
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But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.
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May God extend Japheth’s territory; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”
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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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The Japhethites
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.
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The Hamites
The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.
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Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered
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These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
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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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In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim
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For a hundred pieces of silver, he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent.
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When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her.
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And Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as my wife.”
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Then Shechem’s father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob.
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But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
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Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob’s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor.
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Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
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So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to the men of their city.
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All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.
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They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left.
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The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
