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genesis 10:19
Re­ho­both Ir,  a Ca­lah 12  and Re­sen, w
­ hich is be­t ween Nin­e­
veh and Ca­lah — ​­which is the ­g reat city.
13 Egypt was the fa­ther of
the Lu­d ites, An­a­m ites, Le­ha­bites, Naph­t u­h ites,
14   Path ­r u­sites, Kas­lu ­h ites (from whom the Phi ­l is­
tines came) and Caph­to­rites.
15 Ca­naan was the fa­ther of
Si­don his first­born,  b and of the Hit­tites, 16   Jeb­u­
sites, Am­o­r ites, Gir­g a­shites, 17   H i­v ites, Ar­k ites,
Si­nites, 18   A r ­vad­ites, Zem­a­rites and Ha­math­ites.
Lat­er the Ca­naan­ite ­c lans scat­tered 19  and the bor­ders of
Ca­naan r ­ eached from Si­don to­ward Ge­rar as far as Gaza,
and then to­ward Sod­om, Go­mor­rah, Ad­mah and Ze­boy­
im, as far as La­sha.
15
10:1 – 32
Why the Bible includes
lists of names
A family tree was important in
ancient times as a way to record
people’s history and show how
families were connected to the
community. People were identified
by their relatives. Many family
trees in the Bible point forward and
backward — forward to Jesus and
backward to the people from whom
he descended.
a  11 Or
Nineveh with its city squares    b  15 Or of the Sidonians, the
foremost   
Age of Early Ancestors
The book of Genesis records the long lives of the early
ancestors of faith; here are some of the better-known examples:
Ancestor
Bible Reference from Genesis
Adam 5:5
Seth 5:8
930
912
Methuselah 5:27
Noah 9:29
Shem 11:10–11
Eber 11:16–17
Peleg 11:18–19
Nahor 11:24–25
969
950
600
464
239
148
Terah 11:32 Sarah 23:1 Abraham 25:7 175
35:28–29 180
Isaac
Jacob 47:28
Joseph 50:26
Age at Death
205
127
147
110