<p class="bodytext">When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When humankind<n id="1" /> began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born<n id="2" /> to them,<n id="3" />

Noah had<n id="1" /> three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the account<n id="1" /> of Noah&#8217;s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons<n id="2" /> were born<n id="3" /> to them after the flood.p>

<p class="bodytext">Cush was the father of<n id="1" /> Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.

<p class="bodytext">Mizraim<n id="1" /> was the father of<n id="2" /> the Ludites,<n id="3" /> Anamites,<n id="4" /> Lehabites,<n id="5" /> Naphtuhites,<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">And sons were also born<n id="1" /> to Shem (the older brother of Japheth),<n id="2" /> the father of all the sons of Eber.p>

Joktan was the father of<n id="1" /> Almodad,<n id="2" /> Sheleph,<n id="3" /> Hazarmaveth,<n id="4" /> Jerah,<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Sarai,<n id="1" /> Abram&#8217;s wife, had not given birth to any children,<n id="2" /> but she had an Egyptian servant<n id="3" /> named Hagar.<n id="4" />

(Now<n id="1" /> Abram was 86 years old<n id="2" /> when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.)<n id="3" />p>

The older daughter<n id="1" /> gave birth to a son and named him Moab.<n id="2" /> He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today.

<p class="bodytext">Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

So Sarah became pregnant<n id="1" /> and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)<n id="1" />p>

She went on to say,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Who would<n id="2" /> have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!&#8221;p>

But Sarah noticed<n id="1" /> the son of Hagar the Egyptian &#8211; the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham &#8211; mocking.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">She said to him, &#8220;I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.<n id="1" />

Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan.<n id="1" /> The descendants of Dedan were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites.

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the account of Abraham&#8217;s son Ishmael,<n id="1" /> whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah&#8217;s servant, bore to Abraham.p>