GENESIS 10........

Genesis 10

1 This is the genealogy

Of Prophet Noah's progeny:

Shem, Ham, and Japheth who also

Bore sons after the flood was past,

Whose names were great as this will show.

2 The sons of Japheth were not last:

Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan,

Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

3 The sons of Gomer to a man

Were Ashkenaz, Riphath, Togarmah.

4 The sons of Javan without karma:

Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and

Dodanim. 5 From these came the band

Of peoples each in their own land,

According to his speech and kin,

Their peoples and their discipline.



Language, family, people You have set

As valid visions of all beings met.

But governments and nations are not there

As divine ordinance or yoke to bear.

The new world order of today would take

Away the thousand languages that make

Our human thought reflection of divine.

And patriotism and its wicked wine

Replace the family and water drink.

I choose the family instead of church

And when it comes to nation then I think

It is a power to prop unlawful smirch

By economic plunders. Family

And You, Belovèd, are enough for me.



6 Ham's sons were Cush, Mizraim, Put,

And Canaan. 7 Cush's sons afoot

Were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah,

And Raamah, and then Sabtechah,

And Raamah's sons were Sheba and

Dedan. 8 Cush sired a master hand

In Nimrod, a great one on earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter worth

His weight before YHWH, that is why,

You can hear people classify,

As is said "Like Nimrod, it's true,

The mighty hunter before YHWH."



I thank You, my Beloved, that those who seem

To be the mighty live a darkened dream,

And they too stand before You on the earth.

The Self is all in man and woman worth

The time of day: You are the only "I."

Though Nimrod is a mighty hunter's cry,

He is no more than any other king

Who takes delusion for the real thing.

Express the emptiness of human power

That breeds a shell of conquest for an hour

By saying one is like Nimrod before

The Lord, a mighty hunter, nothing more.

A hunter seeks and sometimes finds in seeking,

And finding only kills for all his peeking.



10 His kingdom began with Babel,

And Erech, and Accad as well

As Calneh in the land of Shinar.

11And then to make his kingdom finer,

He went to Assyria from there

Built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir,

Calah, 12 and Resen there between

The two great cities to be seen,

Nineveh and Calah which is

The principle city of his.

13 Mizraim sired Ludim, Anamim,

And Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim

From whom Philistines, Caphtorim.



Poor Babel, Babylon, the best that men

Have in their heart's desires built and again

Rebuilt in every episode of self

Aggrandizement. Gold, silver, china, delf,

And jewelled things joust with theologies

To make a soulless, glittering syncretese.

The towers, the walls, the gates, the street of gold

Are all I can in vision take that's sold

For Paradise. The book that casts her down

Brings in her place and in her false renown

A picture that to human eyes repeats

Her hanging bowers and wealthy market streets.

Deliver me from visions of that city,

Poor Babylon, poor human soul, have pity.



15 Canaan sired Sidon his first son,

And Heth, 16 the Jebusite begun,

The Amorite, and Girgashite,

17 The Hivite, Arkite, and Sinite,

18 The Arvadite, the Zemarite,

And Hamathite. Afterward then

Their families dispersed again.

19 The border of the Canaanites

Was from Sidon toward Gerar

As far as Gaza, and as far

As Lasha in direction of

Sodom, and of Gomorrah, of

Admah, and Zeboiim, so far.



From Eilat on the sea I turn my face

And cross the rugged desert of the place

Toward Sodom and the salt infested sea.

No hurry, haste, nor worry follow me.

I find of Sodom but the ruins taught

To lie unblinkingly beneath the sun

And wait for sinners to come or be brought

To taste the wicked dust in search of fun.

The heavy waters cover secrets now

That on a day made bare at last make bow

The disillusioned heart. Beloved, I pass

The valley of the dead, its solemn mass,

Cast off hypocrisy and turn my feet

Towards Jerusalem, towards Your seat.



20 These were the sons of Ham, and by

Their families, languages, and by

Their nations and their lands. 21 And Shem

Also had born to him of them

Of Eber, Japheth's elder brother.

22 The sons of Shem, Elam, another

Was Asshur, and then Arphaxad,

Lud and Aram were all he had.

23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether,

And Mash. 24 Arphaxad's only feather

Was Salah, who sired Eber. 25 To

Eber were born two sons whose names

Were Peleg, in whose days the claims

For measuring the earth were done,

And Joktan was his other son.



The whole earth measured out at seven paces

And marked and numbered lovingly in places

Set out for growing things both tame and wild,

For pleasure of both man and woman, child.

The alveolic circles intersecting

Above the secret fountains, springs affecting

The growth of leaf and bud, mosses and sprout,

The saxifrage by rock and shade, no doubt

Reflect the stars that sweep the sky at night.

By day I dig and water in the light,

And enter earthy gates fraught with the noon,

And soiled with rich loam for a sacred boon.

Beloved, all things You make are measured here,

While You alone have neither bound nor fear.



26 Joktan produced Almodad, and

Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

27 Hadoram, Uzal, and Diklah,

28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab.

All these were the sons of Joktan.

30 Their dwelling place was from Mesha

As you go toward Sephar by plan,

The mountain of the east, now drab.

31 These were the sons of Shem, by their

Families, and languages and their

Lands and their nations. 32 So these were

The families of Noah's sons

By generations, benisons,

By nations as they spread abroad

On earth when the flood dried and thawed.