Genesis 10

¹These are the generations of the sons of Noah , Shem , Ham , and Japheth . Sons were born to them after the flood .

²The sons of Japheth : Gomer , Magog , Madai , Javan , Tubal , Meshech , and Tiras .

³The sons of Gomer : Ashkenaz , Riphath , and Togarmah .

⁴The sons of Javan : Elishah , Tarshish , Kittim , and Dodanim .

⁵From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands , each with his own language , by their clans , in their nations .

⁶The sons of Ham : Cush , Egypt , Put , and Canaan .

⁷The sons of Cush : Seba , Havilah , Sabtah , Raamah , and Sabteca . The sons of Raamah : Sheba and Dedan .

⁸Cush fathered Nimrod ; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.

⁹He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said , Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.

¹⁰The beginning of his kingdom was Babel , Erech , Accad , and Calneh , in the land of Shinar .

¹¹From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh , Rehoboth-Ir , Calah , and

¹²Resen between Nineveh and Calah ; that is the great city .

¹³Egypt fathered Ludim , Anamim , Lehabim , Naphtuhim ,

¹⁴Pathrusim , Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came ), and Caphtorim .

¹⁵Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth ,

¹⁶and the Jebusites , the Amorites , the Girgashites ,

¹⁷the Hivites , the Arkites , the Sinites ,

¹⁸the Arvadites , the Zemarites , and the Hamathites . Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed .

¹⁹And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza , and in the direction of Sodom , Gomorrah , Admah , and Zeboiim , as far as Lasha .

²⁰These are the sons of Ham , by their clans , their languages , their lands , and their nations .

²¹To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber , the elder brother of Japheth , children were born .

²²The sons of Shem : Elam , Asshur , Arpachshad , Lud , and Aram .

²³The sons of Aram : Uz , Hul , Gether , and Mash .

²⁴Arpachshad fathered Shelah ; and Shelah fathered Eber .

²⁵To Eber were born two sons : the name of the one was Peleg , for in his days the earth was divided , and his brother’s name was Joktan .

²⁶Joktan fathered Almodad , Sheleph , Hazarmaveth , Jerah ,

²⁷Hadoram , Uzal , Diklah ,

²⁸Obal , Abimael , Sheba ,

²⁹Ophir , Havilah , and Jobab ; all these were the sons of Joktan .

³⁰The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east .

³¹These are the sons of Shem , by their clans , their languages , their lands , and their nations .

³²These are the clans of the sons of Noah , according to their genealogies , in their nations , and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood .