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he said, "Cursed be Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers."

He also said, "Blessed by the LORD my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave."

God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave."

From these the coastland peoples spread. These are the sons of Japheth in their lands, each with his own language, by their families, in their nations.

The beginning of his kingdom was Ba'bel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.

Canaan became the father of Sidon his first-born, and Heth,

To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.

Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chalde'ans.

Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sar'ai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chalde'ans to go into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

And Abram took Sar'ai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions which they had gathered, and the persons that they had gotten in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,

Thence he removed 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 on the name of the LORD.

When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sar'ai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful to behold;

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

But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sar'ai, Abram's wife.

And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had.

So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.

And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw that the Jordan valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zo'ar; this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomor'rah.

Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, while Lot dwelt among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

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