- 1Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
- 2The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- 3The sons of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
- 4The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
- 5Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
- 6The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- 7The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.
- 8Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
- 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.
- 11Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
- 12and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
- 13Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
- 14Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
- 15Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
- 16the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
- 17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
- 18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
- 19The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon—as you go toward Gerar—to Gaza—as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim—to Lasha.
- 20These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
- 21Children were also born to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth.
- 22The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
- 23The sons of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
- 24Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
- 25To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.
- 26Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
- 27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
- 28Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
- 29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
- 30Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
- 31These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations.
- 32These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.