Genesis - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 9

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10 10 all the lifetime of Noah was nina hundred and fifty years, when he died. 'iijisinrg ui £.¤al;’s Emma. New these are the registers of the

sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and ja- pheth; for they had sons born to them after the deluge. The sons 0f]a.pheath;G0mer,1\Iag0g,

and Madai, and Ion, and Thubal, and Meshech, and Thiras. And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Thogarmah. And the sons of javan (Ion) Elishah, and Thar- shish, Kittim, and the Dodanim. From these they spread themselves over the sea·coasts of the countries of the nations,_ each with their Ian- guage amongst the §$ntiIe tribes. And the sons of am; Kush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. And the sons of Kush; Seba, and

Havilah, and Sabthah, and Raamah, and Sabtheka; and the sons of Raamah, Sheba and Dedan. To Kush was born Nimrod. Wild beasts began then to infest the earth ; so he became a powerful hunter in the presence of Like Nimrod, a. mighty hunter before the And the capitals of his king- doms were Babel) and Ereck and Akad, and Kalinah inthe Bush—lzmd2

:1 From that land Asshur proceeded to 12 Assyria, and built Ninevah, and the town of the plains, and Kalah, and Reseu, between Ninevah and Kalah, 16 18 which is_ a_ large city. The Mizrazm also produced the

Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, and Pathrusim, and Kasluhim, from whom sprung the Philistines and the Kaphtorites. And to Canaan were born Zidon,

his eldest, and Heth; and the jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite; and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Harnathite; and each spread themselves as the tribes of the Canaanites. And the boundaries of the Canaanites are from Zidon by the valley of Gerar to Gaza; along the valley of Sodom. and Gomorrah

1 The Babel mentioned here must not be

confused with the Babylon of the Nebuchad— nezzars, which was built long after, as a City probably really by Nebuchadnezzar the First.·—F. F.

and I therefore translate: it, to remove a geographical error of old standing ——1·‘.F. and Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lashar. These were the sons of Ham, in their tribes and languages, in the regions of the heathen. And Shem, the elder brother of

japheth, also produced. He was the father of all the sons of Heber} The sons of Shem were Elam, and Ashur, and Arphaxed, and Lot, and Aram. And the sons of Ararn Uz and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. And to Arphaxed was born Shelah, and to Shelah was born Heber; and to Heber were born two sons, the name of the first, Peleg;2 because in his days the Continent was split up; and his brother’s name was joktan. And to joktan were born Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth, and jereh and Hadorarn, and Uzal, and Diklah; and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba; and Ophir, and Havilah, and jobab; all these were sons of joktan, and they populated from Mesha, by the valley of Sephar, a mountain of the East. These are the sons of Shem, by their tribes and by their languages in their countries among the heathen. The above were the families of the

sons of Noah, and their descendants, by tribes. From them they spread themselves amongst the nations on the earth after the Flood. All the country was agreed for

settled objects. But some of them marching from the East arrived at a plain in the Bush—land, and halted there. Then each said to his neigh- Come, let us set to work making bricks, and see that they are properly burnt; and bricks shall serve us for stone, and petroleum for rnor· We will build here for ourselves a City and a Tower whose top shall reach the sky; thus 2O 21 22 26 28

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’ in Hebrew signifies a and it is an his-

torical fact that the Semitic nations have been the greatest colonisers ofthe ezmh. As Baron von Humboldt says of the Arabian Thcy are the most mobile race in the world) in

means in the Hebrew 1ess—· of the original continent by the away of aha American continents. '` Sec Prof. C. A. L. 10rta¤’s works upon this great geological convulsion. lf wc take 3 map of the two Americas, in Mercatofs pr0— jcction, and cutout the Atlantic, the i¤den· tations of the Eastern Americas and \’Vestem Europe and Africa {it into each other.-·F. F.