創世記10:21-32

10:21 雅弗的哥哥閃，是希伯子孫之祖，他也生了兒子。
10:22 閃的兒子是以攔、亞述、亞法撒、路德、亞蘭。
10:23 亞蘭的兒子是烏斯、戶勒、基帖、瑪施。
10:24 亞法撒生沙拉；沙拉生希伯。
10:25 希伯生了兩個兒子，一個名叫法勒（就是分的意思），因為那時人就分地居住；法勒的兄弟名叫約坍。
10:26 約坍生亞摩答、沙列、哈薩瑪非、耶拉、
10:27 哈多蘭、烏薩、德拉、
10:28 俄巴路、亞比瑪利、示巴、
10:29 阿斐、哈腓拉、約巴，這都是約坍的兒子。
10:30 他們所住的地方是從米沙直到西發東邊的山。
10:31 這就是閃的子孫，各隨他們的宗族、方言，所住的地土、邦國。
10:32 這些都是挪亞三個兒子的宗族，各隨他們的支派立國。洪水以後，他們在地上分為邦國。

²¹ Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.

²² The sons of Shem:

Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.

²³ The sons of Aram:

Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.

²⁴ Arphaxad was the father of Shelah,

and Shelah the father of Eber.

²⁵ Two sons were born to Eber:

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

²⁶ Joktan was the father of

Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ²⁹ Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

³⁰ The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.

³¹ These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

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

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    閃的後裔就是指居住在亞洲的，尤其是指亞伯拉罕的子孫！