Nations Descended from Noah

These are the descendants of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; children were born to them after the flood.

From these the coastland peoples spread. These are the descendants of Japheth in their lands, with their own language, by their families, in their nations.

These are the descendants of Ham, by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

These are the descendants of Shem, by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

These are the families of Noah’s sons, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations.

No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations.

I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.

I will bless her and also give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”

seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

and by your offspring shall all the nations of the earth gain blessing for themselves, because you have obeyed my voice.”

And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples born of you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other; the elder shall serve the younger.”

I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth shall gain blessing for themselves through your offspring,

Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”

God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.

But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”

For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

“Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.

As for the male and female slaves whom you may have, it is from the nations around you that you may acquire male and female slaves.

And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation and your cities a waste.

You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall devour you.

but I will remember in their favor the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, to be their God: I am the Lord.”

Now if you kill this people as one, then the nations who have heard about you will say,

For from the top of the crags I see him; from the hills I behold him. Here is a people living alone and not reckoning itself among the nations!

God, who brings him out of Egypt, is like the horns of a wild ox for him; he shall devour the nations that are his foes and break their bones. He shall strike with his arrows.