25 he said,

“Cursed(A) be Canaan!(B)
    The lowest of slaves
    will he be to his brothers.(C)

26 He also said,

“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem!(D)
    May Canaan be the slave(E) of Shem.
27 May God extend Japheth’s[a] territory;(F)
    may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,(G)
    and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 9:27 Japheth sounds like the Hebrew for extend.

The Table of Nations

10 This is the account(A) of Shem, Ham and Japheth,(B) Noah’s sons,(C) who themselves had sons after the flood.

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(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)(A)

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25 Two sons were born to Eber:

One was named Peleg,[a] because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 10:25 Peleg means division.

32 These are the clans of Noah’s sons,(A) according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth(B) after the flood.

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