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• Shem, Ham, and Japheth

  Shem, Ham, and Japheth were the three sons of Noah. After surviving the Flood, they are presented in Genesis 10 as the ancestors of many nations. The line of Shem leads to Abraham.

• Arphaxad

  Arphaxad was the son of Shem, the son of Noah. In the genealogies of Genesis he is one link in the line running from Shem to Abraham, and his name also appears in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.

• Noah's Ark

  The ark is the large vessel that God commanded Noah to build in Genesis 6–9. Noah's family of eight and the animals survived the Flood aboard it. The New Testament draws on the ark as an image of faith, salvation, and baptism.

• Table of Nations

  The Table of Nations is the list of the descendants of Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, recorded in Genesis 10. Arranged in genealogical form, the passage describes how the various peoples spread across the earth after the Flood.

• Table of Nations

  The Table of Nations is the genealogy of the descendants of Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, recorded in Genesis 10. It traces how humanity divided and spread into many peoples and nations after the Flood. It is also called the List of Nations.

• Table of Nations

  The Table of Nations is the genealogy in Genesis 10 of the peoples descended from Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. In a single list, it shows how humanity divided into many nations and languages and spread abroad after the Flood.

• Eber

  Eber is a descendant of Noah who appears in the genealogy of Shem in Genesis. He is the son of Salah and the father of Peleg and Joktan. His name is commonly associated with the origin of the word "Hebrew."

• Shelah (Biblical Figure)

  Shelah is a descendant of Shem who appears in the genealogies of Genesis. He was the son of Arphaxad and the father of Eber, and he forms one link in the line running from Noah to Abraham.

• Genesis 10

  Genesis 10 is a genealogical chapter recording how the nations branched out after the Flood from Noah's three sons, Japheth, Ham, and Shem. It is commonly called the "Table of Nations."

• Peleg

  Peleg is a son of Eber in the genealogy of Shem in Genesis. His name is accompanied by the explanation that "in his days was the earth divided," and he belongs to the line that runs through Abraham to the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.

• Genesis 10:6

  Genesis 10:6 lists the four sons of Ham, the son of Noah: Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan. The verse is frequently discussed both for the question of which regions and peoples these names designate and because the so-called "curse of Ham" was misused in the past to justify racial discrimination.

• Genesis 9:25

  Genesis 9:25 records the words Noah spoke after awaking from his drunkenness, cursing Canaan, the son of Ham, and declaring that he would be a servant to his brethren. In the modern era the verse, under the label "the curse of Ham," was used to justify the enslavement of Black Africans, and it is frequently cited as a leading example of the misuse of Scripture.

• Joktan

  Joktan was a son of Eber, a descendant of Shem, and the younger brother of Peleg. He appears with his thirteen sons in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 and is commonly regarded as the ancestor of various tribes of southern Arabia.

• 1 Chronicles 1

  First Chronicles 1 is a genealogy that runs from Adam through Noah and Abraham to Isaac's sons, Esau and Israel. It closes with lists of the descendants of Edom, its kings, and its chiefs.

• Raamah

  Raamah is a figure in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10: a son of Cush, a grandson of Noah's son Ham, and the father of Sheba and Dedan. In the Book of Ezekiel, the same name refers to an Arabian people who traded with Tyre.

• Nimrod

  Nimrod, who appears in Genesis 10, is the son of Cush and the grandson of Ham. The Bible describes him as one who "began to be a mighty one in the earth" and "a mighty hunter before the LORD," and it associates him with cities such as Babel and Nineveh.

• Cush

  Cush is the name the Old Testament uses for the region of the upper Nile south of Egypt and for its people. It is also the name of a son of Ham. The Septuagint rendered it "Ethiopia."

• Meshech and Tubal

  Meshech and Tubal are two peoples introduced in the Old Testament as descendants of Japheth. In the Book of Ezekiel they appear as northern nations that traded with Tyre and as peoples ruled by Gog.

• Noah

  Noah is a figure in the Old Testament Book of Genesis who, at God's command, built an ark and survived the Great Flood with his family and the animals. After the Flood he received the covenant of the rainbow.

• Noah's Flood

  Noah's Flood is an event recorded in Genesis 6–9. It tells how God judged a world filled with wickedness by means of a flood while preserving Noah's family and the animals in the ark, and how after the flood He made a covenant with the rainbow as its sign.