Jan 4 - Genesis 10-12
Genesis
1This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, who themselves had sons after the flood. The Japhethites2The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.3The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.4The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim and the Rodanim.5(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.) The Hamites6The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan.7The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.8Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth.9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD."10The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar.11From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah12and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.13Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,14Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.15Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,16Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,17Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,18Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered19and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.20These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations. The Semites21Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.22The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.23The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshech.24Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah the father of Eber.25Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.26Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,28Obal, Abimael, Sheba,29Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.30The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.31These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.32These are the clans of Noah's sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.
1Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.2As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.3They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.4Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."5But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.6The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.7Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."8So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.9That is why it was called Babel -because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.10This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.11And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.12When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.13And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.14When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.15And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.16When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.17And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.18When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.19And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.20When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.21And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.22When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.23And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.24When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.25And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.26After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.27This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.28While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.29Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.30Now Sarai was barren; she had no children.31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.32Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
1The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.2"I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.3I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."4So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.5He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.6Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.7The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.8From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.9Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.10Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.11As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "I know what a beautiful woman you are.12When the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me but will let you live.13Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you."14When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that she was a very beautiful woman.15And when Pharaoh's officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace.16He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.17But the LORD inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram's wife Sarai.18So Pharaoh summoned Abram. "What have you done to me?" he said. "Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?19Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!"20Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.