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God said to Noah and his sons,

After he drank some of the wine, he became drunk, took off his clothes, and lay naked in his tent.

When Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked, he went out and told his two brothers.

When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

he said, "A curse on Canaan! He will be a slave to his brothers.

May God cause Japheth to increase! May his descendants live with the people of Shem! Canaan will be the slave of Japheth."

At first his kingdom included Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all three of them in Babylonia.

Eber had two sons: one was named Peleg, because during his time the people of the world were divided; and the other was named Joktan.

and Haran died in his hometown of Ur in Babylonia, while his father was still living.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, who was the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, Abram's wife, and with them he left the city of Ur in Babylonia to go to the land of Canaan. They went as far as Haran and settled there.

Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the wealth and all the slaves they had acquired in Haran, and they started out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,

After that, he moved on south to the hill country east of the city of Bethel and set up his camp between Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There also he built an altar and worshiped the Lord .

When he was about to cross the border into Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "You are a beautiful woman.

When he crossed the border into Egypt, the Egyptians did see that his wife was beautiful.

Some of the court officials saw her and told the king how beautiful she was; so she was taken to his palace.

But because the king had taken Sarai, the Lord sent terrible diseases on him and on the people of his palace.

The king gave orders to his men, so they took Abram and put him out of the country, together with his wife and everything he owned.

Abram went north out of Egypt to the southern part of Canaan with his wife and everything he owned, and Lot went with him.

Lot also had sheep, goats, and cattle, as well as his own family and servants.

So Abram moved his camp and settled near the sacred trees of Mamre at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord .