Urban Pillage

Genesis 7:20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits. 

21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. 

22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 

23Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. 

24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days. Genesis 10:10

 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar. 

11From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah 

12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city. 

13 Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, 

14 Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites. 

15 Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, 

16Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, 

17 Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, 

18 Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered 

19 and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha. 

20 These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations. Genesis 47:5

 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you, 

6 and the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. And if you know of any among them with special ability, put them in charge of my own livestock.” 

7 Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh. After Jacob blessed Pharaoh, 

8 Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?” 

9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.” 

10 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.

11 So Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh directed. 

12 Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their children.

Psalms 81:4 this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.