Genesis 10:29
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.”
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BSBPD
“Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these <FI>are<Fi> sons of Joktan;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Genesis 10:29 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 2:11The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
- Genesis 25:18Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
- 1 Samuel 15:7Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
- 1 Kings 9:28They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
- 1 Kings 22:48Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
- 1 Chronicles 1:23Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
- 1 Chronicles 8:18Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.
- 1 Chronicles 9:10From the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, and Jachin;
- 1 Chronicles 9:13and 1,760 of their relatives, the heads of their families, able men for the work of the service of the house of God.
- Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
- Job 28:16It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
- Psalms 45:9The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
- Isaiah 13:12I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
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