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He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.

"May God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant."

From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth

Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there.

Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan.

Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.

It came about when he came near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman;

and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.

So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.

He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.

Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the valley, and moved his tents as far as Sodom.

Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.

They also took Lot, Abram's nephew, and his possessions and departed, for he was living in Sodom.