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Genesis 10

Descendants of Noah

 ^2(A)The sons of Japheth were ^(B)Gomer and Magog and ^(C)Madai and ^(D)Javan and Tubal and ^(E)Meshech and Tiras.

 ³The sons of Gomer were ^(F)Ashkenaz and Riphath and ^(G)Togarmah.

 ⁴The sons of Javan were Elishah and ^(H)Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.

 ⁵From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

 ^6(I)The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

 ⁷The sons of Cush were ^(J)Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and ^(K)Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were ^(L)Sheba and ^(M)Dedan.

 ⁸Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth.

 ⁹He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."

 ¹⁰The beginning of his kingdom was ^[a](N)Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of ^(O)Shinar.

 ¹¹From that land he went forth ^(P)into Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,

 ¹²and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

 ¹³Mizraim became the father of ^(Q)Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim

 ¹⁴and ^(R)Pathrusim and Casluhim (from which came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.

 ¹⁵Canaan became the father of ^(S)Sidon, his firstborn, and ^(T)Heth

 ¹⁶and ^(U)the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite

 ¹⁷and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite

 ¹⁸and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.

 ^19(V)The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward ^(W)Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

 ²⁰These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.

 ²¹Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born.

 ^22(X)The sons of Shem were ^(Y)Elam and Asshur and ^(Z)Arpachshad and ^(AA)Lud and Aram.

 ²³The sons of Aram were ^(AB)Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.

 ²⁴Arpachshad became the father of ^(AC)Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.

 ^25(AD)Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

 ²⁶Joktan became the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah

 ²⁷and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah

 ²⁸and Obal and Abimael and Sheba

 ²⁹and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

 ³⁰Now their settlement extended from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the hill country of the east.

 ³¹These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, according to their nations.

 ³²These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations; and ^(AE)out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 11

Universal Language, Babel, Confusion

 ²It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land ^(AF)of Shinar and settled there.

 ³They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used ^(AG)tar for mortar.

 ⁴They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top ^(AH)will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves ^(AI)a name, otherwise we ^(AJ)will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."

 ^5(AK)The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

 ⁶The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have ^(AL)the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.

 ⁷"Come, ^(AM)let Us go down and there ^(AN)confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."

 ⁸So the LORD ^(AO)scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.

 ⁹Therefore its name was called ^[b](AP)Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.

Descendants of Shem

 ¹¹and Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters.

 ¹²Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah;

 ¹³and Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters.

 ¹⁴Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber;

 ¹⁵and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and he had other sons and daughters.

 ¹⁶Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg;

 ¹⁷and Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and he had other sons and daughters.

 ¹⁸Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu;

 ¹⁹and Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and he had other sons and daughters.

 ²⁰Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug;

 ²¹and Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and he had other sons and daughters.

 ²²Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor;

 ²³and Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and he had other sons and daughters.

 ²⁴Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of ^(AR)Terah;

 ²⁵and Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and he had other sons and daughters.

 ²⁶Terah lived seventy years, and became ^(AS)the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

 ²⁷Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and ^(AT)Haran became the father of ^(AU)Lot.

 ²⁸Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in ^(AV)Ur of the Chaldeans.

 ²⁹Abram and ^(AW)Nahor took wives for themselves The name of Abram's wife was ^(AX)Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife was ^(AY)Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.

 ^30(AZ)Sarai was barren; she had no child.

 ³¹Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went out together from ^(BA)Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there.

 ³²The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

Genesis 12

Abram Journeys to Egypt

 ⁴So Abram went forth as the LORD had spoken to him; and ^(BH)Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

 ⁵Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their ^(BI)possessions which they had accumulated, and ^(BJ)the persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; ^(BK)thus they came to the land of Canaan.

 ⁶Abram passed through the land as far as the site of ^(BL)Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land.

 ⁷The LORD ^(BM)appeared to Abram and said, "^(BN)To your descendants I will give this land " So he built ^(BO)an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

 ⁸Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with ^(BP)Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and ^(BQ)called upon the name of the LORD.

 ⁹Abram journeyed on, continuing toward ^(BR)the ^[c]Negev.

 ¹⁰Now there was ^(BS)a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was ^(BT)severe in the land.

 ¹¹It came about when he came near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a ^(BU)beautiful woman;

 ^12(BV)and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

 ¹³"Please say that you are ^(BW)my sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that ^(BX)I may live on account of you."

 ¹⁴It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

 ¹⁵Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and ^(BY)the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

 ¹⁶Therefore ^(BZ)he treated Abram well for her sake; and ^(CA)gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.

 ¹⁷But the LORD ^(CB)struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

 ¹⁸Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, "^(CC)What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

 ¹⁹"Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her and go."

 ²⁰Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.

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Matthew 4

The Temptation of Jesus

 ²And after He had ^(C)fasted forty days and forty nights, He ^[a]then became hungry.

 ³And ^(D)the tempter came and said to Him, "If You are the ^(E)Son of God, command that these stones become bread."

 ⁴But He answered and said, "It is written, '^(F)MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.'"

 ⁵Then the devil took Him into ^(G)the holy city and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple,

 ⁶and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written,
         '^(H)HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU';
         and
         'ON their HANDS THEY WILL BEAR YOU UP,
         SO THAT YOU WILL NOT STRIKE YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.'"

 ⁷Jesus said to him, "On the other hand, it is written, '^(I)YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST.'"

 ^8(J)Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;

 ⁹and he said to Him, "^(K)All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me."

 ¹⁰Then Jesus said to him, "Go, Satan! For it is written, '^(L)YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM ONLY.'"

 ¹¹Then the devil left Him; and behold, ^(M)angels came and began to minister to Him.

Jesus Begins His Ministry

 ¹³and leaving Nazareth, He came and ^(P)settled in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali.

 ¹⁴This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet:
    ¹⁵"^(Q)THE LAND OF ZEBULUN AND THE LAND OF NAPHTALI,
         BY THE WAY OF THE SEA, BEYOND THE JORDAN, GALILEE OF THE ^[b]GENTILES--
    ¹⁶"^(R)THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING IN DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT,
         AND THOSE WHO WERE SITTING IN THE LAND AND SHADOW OF DEATH,
         UPON THEM A LIGHT DAWNED."

 ^17(S)From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "^(T)Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

The First Disciples

 ¹⁹And He said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men."

 ²⁰Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.

 ²¹Going on from there He saw two other brothers, ^(X)James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and He called them.

 ²²Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.

Ministry in Galilee

 ²⁴The news about Him spread ^(AC)throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, ^(AD)demoniacs, ^(AE)epileptics, ^(AF)paralytics; and He healed them.

 ²⁵Large crowds ^(AG)followed Him from Galilee and ^(AH)the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from ^(AI)beyond the Jordan.