Japheth

Georgians call themselves Kartvelebi (ქართველები), their land Sakartvelo (საქართველო), and their language Kartuli (ქართული). According to legend, the ancestor of the Kartvelian people was Kartlos, the great grandson of the Biblical Japheth.

7:1 And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

7:2 Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;

6:1 And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,

6:2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

6:3 And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.

5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;

5:2 Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made.