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Genesis 10:20
Genesis 10:20 is verse 20 of Genesis chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
King James Version
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
World English Bible
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
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Genesis 10:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,
19 and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
21 And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.
22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 10:6The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Genesis 11:1Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
Genesis 11:2And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Genesis 11:3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
Genesis 11:4“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
Genesis 11:5Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
Genesis 11:6And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
Genesis 11:7Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
Genesis 11:8So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
Genesis 11:9That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.