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Genesis 10

10. The Table of 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.

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

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

    ²⁹ Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

    ²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ²⁶ Joktan was the father of
   Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²⁵ Two sons were born to Eber:
   One was named Peleg, Peleg means division. because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

    ²⁴ Arphaxad was the father of Hebrew; Septuagint father of Cainan, and Cainan was the father of Shelah,
   and Shelah the father of Eber.

    ²³ The sons of Aram:
   Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek. See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:17; Hebrew Mash.

    ²² The sons of Shem:
   Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.

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

    ²⁰ These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

   The Semites

    ¹⁹ and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.

    ¹⁸ Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.

   Later the Canaanite clans scattered ¹⁷ Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, ¹⁶ Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, ¹⁵ Canaan was the father of
   Sidon his firstborn, Or of the Sidonians, the foremost and of the Hittites, ¹⁴ Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.

    ¹³ Egypt was the father of
   the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, ¹² and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.

    ¹¹ From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Or Nineveh with its city squares Calah ¹⁰ The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Or Uruk and Akkad—all of them in Shinar. That is, Babylonia ⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.” ⁸ Cush was the father Father may mean ancestor or predecessor or founder; also in verses 13, 15, 24 and 26. of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth. ⁷ The sons of Cush:
   Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka.

   The sons of Raamah:
   Sheba and Dedan.

    ⁶ The sons of Ham:
   Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.

    ⁵ (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)

   The Hamites

    ⁴ The sons of Javan:
   Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites. Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text and Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:7); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text Dodanites ³ The sons of Gomer:
   Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.

    ² The sons Sons may mean descendants or successors or nations; also in verses 3, 4, 6, 7, 20-23, 29 and 31. of Japheth:
   Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.

    ¹ This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.

   The Japhethites

   

Mark 5:21-34

5. Miracles of Jesus

²¹ When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. ²² Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. ²³ He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.” ²⁴ So Jesus went with him.

   A large crowd followed and pressed around him. ²⁵ And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. ²⁶ She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. ²⁷ When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, ²⁸ because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” ²⁹ Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.

    ³⁰ At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”

    ³¹ “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”

    ³² But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. ³³ Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. ³⁴ He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

   

Psalm 69:1-18

69. Psalm 69

¹ Save me, O God,
   for the waters have come up to my neck.
² I sink in the miry depths,
   where there is no foothold.
I have come into the deep waters;
   the floods engulf me.
³ I am worn out calling for help;
   my throat is parched.
My eyes fail,
   looking for my God.
⁴ Those who hate me without reason
   outnumber the hairs of my head;
many are my enemies without cause,
   those who seek to destroy me.
I am forced to restore
   what I did not steal.

    ⁵ You, God, know my folly;
   my guilt is not hidden from you.

    ⁶ Lord, the LORD Almighty,
   may those who hope in you
   not be disgraced because of me;
God of Israel,
   may those who seek you
   not be put to shame because of me.
⁷ For I endure scorn for your sake,
   and shame covers my face.
⁸ I am a foreigner to my own family,
   a stranger to my own mother’s children;
⁹ for zeal for your house consumes me,
   and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.
¹⁰ When I weep and fast,
   I must endure scorn;
¹¹ when I put on sackcloth,
   people make sport of me.
¹² Those who sit at the gate mock me,
   and I am the song of the drunkards.

    ¹³ But I pray to you, LORD,
   in the time of your favor;
in your great love, O God,
   answer me with your sure salvation.
¹⁴ Rescue me from the mire,
   do not let me sink;
deliver me from those who hate me,
   from the deep waters.
¹⁵ Do not let the floodwaters engulf me
   or the depths swallow me up
   or the pit close its mouth over me.

    ¹⁶ Answer me, LORD, out of the goodness of your love;
   in your great mercy turn to me.
¹⁷ Do not hide your face from your servant;
   answer me quickly, for I am in trouble.
¹⁸ Come near and rescue me;
   deliver me because of my foes.