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[1]And Peleg the son of Ever died in those days, in the fortyeighth year of the life of Avram son of Terach, and all the days of Peleg were two hundred and thirty-nine years, and he died.
[2]And when YHWH had scattered the sons of man on account of their sin of the tower upon the face of all the earth. They spread forth into many divisions, and all the sons of men were dispersed into the four winds of all the earth.
[3]And all the families became each according to its language, its land, or its city.
[4]And the sons of man built many cities according to their families, in all the places where they went, and throughout the earth where YHWH had scattered them.
[5]And some of them built cities in places from which they were afterward destroyed, and they called these cities after their own names, or the names of their children, or after their particular occurrences.
[6]And the sons of Yafet the son of Noach went and built themselves cities in the places where they were scattered, and they called all their cities after their names, and the sons of Yafet were divided upon the face of the earth into many divisions and languages. [6b] And these are the names of all their families according to all their cities which were built to them in those days after the tower. [This verse was omitted by Moses Samuel in his 1840 English translation.]
[7]And these are the sons of Yafet according to their families, Gomer, Magog, Madai, Yavan, Tuval, Meshech and Tiras; these are the children of Yafet according to their generations.
[8]And the children of Gomer, according to their cities, were the Prankos [Franks?], who dwell in the land of Pranza [France?], by the river Senah [Seine?].
[9]And the children of Rifat are the Bartonim, who dwell in the land of Bartonia by the river Lidah, which empties its waters in the great sea Gihon, that is, Oceanus ["that is, oceanus" Heb: AWQYNWS].
[10]And the children of Tugarma are ten families, and these are their names: Kuzar, Partzinak, Bulgar, Elikanus, Ragvina, Turki, Buz, Zabuk, Ongar and Tilmatz; all these spread and rested in the north and built themselves cities.
[11]And they called their cities after their names, those are they who abide by the rivers Hital and Altak unto this day.
[12]But [the families of] Angoli, Bulgar and Partzinak, they dwell by the great river Danuvi; and the names of their cities are also according to their names.
[13]And the children of Yavan are the Yavanim who dwell in the land of Makdonia, and the children of Medaiare are the Arezlus that dwell in the land of Kurson, and the children of Tuval are those that dwell in the land of Tushkanah by the river Pashiah.
[14]And the children of Meshech are the Shevshani and the children of Tiras are Roshash, Boshni, and Ongolis; all these went and built themselves cities; ‘those are the cities that are situate by the sea Y'bus by the river Kira, which empties itself in the river Gurgan.
[15]And the children of Elishah are the Almania, and they also went and built themselves cities; those are the cities sit between the mountains of Yov and Shivatmu; [and of them were the people of Lumbardi who dwell opposite the mountains of Yov and Shivatmu] [My Hebrew edition appears to lack this line of text which must have been present in Moses Samuel's copy. The copiest must have accidentally omitted the words between the to occurrences of the phrase "mountains of Yov and Shivatmu".], and they conquered the land of Italia [Heb: AYTLYA "Italy"] and remained there unto this day.
[16]And the children of Chittim are the Romim who dwell in the valley of C'napania by the river Tiberaiu.
[17]And the children of Dudanim are those who dwell in the cities of the sea Gihon, in the land of Bar'danah.
[18]These are the families of the children of Yafet according to their cities and languages, when they were scattered after the tower. [Moses Samuel follows this verse with "...and they called their cities after their names and occurrences; and these are the names of all their cities according to their families, which they built in those days after the tower." Which appears to be his translation which appears in verse 6b above. It is unknown why he transplanted this material from just after verse 6 to just after verse 8.]
[19]And the children of Ham the son of Noach went also and built to themselves cities in places where they were scattered and called also the names of the cities by their names and by their occurrences and these are the names of all their cities according to their families which built to them in those days after the tower and the children of Ham [Moses Samuel in his 1840 translation seems to have omitted everything between the first and second appearances of "the children of Ham". He must have taken his eyes off of the text and then found the key phrase "the children of Ham" in the wrong place.] were Kush, Mitzraim, Put and Kanaan according to their generation and cities.
[20]All these went and built themselves cities as they found [fit places for them], and they called their cities after the names of their fathers Kush, Mitzraim, Put and Kanaan.
[21]And the children of Mitzraim are the Ludim, Anamim, Lehavim, Naftuchim, Patrusim, Kasluchim and Kafturim, seven families.
[22]All these dwell by the river Shichor, that is the brook of Egypt, and they built themselves cities and called them after their names.
[23]And the children of Patros and Kasluch intermarried together, and from them went forth the P'lishtim, the Gerarim ,the Azatim, the Gitim and the Ekronim, in all five families; these also built themselves cities, and they called their cities after the names of their fathers unto this day.
[24]And the children of Kanaan also built themselves cities, and they called their cities after their names, eleven cities and others without number.
[25]And four men from the family of Ham went to the land of the plain; these are the names of the four men, Sodom, Amorah, Admah and Tz'voyim.
[26]And these men built themselves four cities in the land of the plain, and they called the names of their cities after their names.
[27]And they and their children and all belonging to them dwelt in those cities, and they were fruitful and multiplied greatly and dwelt peaceably.
[28]And Seir the son of Chur, son of Chivi, son of Kanaan, went and found a valley opposite to Mount Paran, and he built a city there, and he and his seven sons and his house dwelt there, and he called the city which he built Seir, according to his name; that is the land of Seir unto this day.
[29]These are the families of the children of Ham, according to their languages and cities, when they were scattered to their countries after the tower.
[30]And some of the children of Shem son of Noach, father of all the children of Ever, also went and built themselves cities in the places wherein they were scattered, and they called their cities after their names.
[31]And the sons of Shem were Elam, Ashur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram, and they built themselves cities and called the names of all their cities after their names.
[32]And Ashur son of Shem and his children and his house went forth at that time, a very large [body of them], and they went to a distant land that they found, and they met with a very extensive valley in the land that they went to, and they built themselves four cities, and they called them after their names and occurrences.
[33]And these are the names of all the cities which the children of Ashur built, Ninevah, Resen, Kalach and R'chovot City; and the children of Ashur dwell there unto this day.
[34]And the children of Aram also went and built themselves a city, and they called the name of the city Utz after their eldest brother, and they dwell therein; that is the land of Utz to this day.
[35]And in the second year after the tower a man from the house of Ashur, whose name was Bala, went from the land of Ninevah to sojourn with his house wherever he could find a place; and they came until opposite the cities of the plain against Sodom, and they dwelt there.
[36]And the man rose up and built there a small city, and called its name Bala, after his name; that is the land of Tzoar unto this day.
[37]And these are all the families of the children of Shem according to their language and cities, after they were scattered upon the earth after the tower.
[38]And every province, and province city and city, and family of the families of the children of Noach built themselves many cities after this.
[39]And they established kingdoms in all their cities, in order to be regulated by their orders; so did all the families of the children of Noach forever.
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