Gen10:1 Nations Descended from NoahNations That Descended from Noah Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.
Gen10:2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Gen10:3 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Gen10:4 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Gen10:5 From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.
Gen10:6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Gen10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
Gen10:8 Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.
Gen10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD."
Gen10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Gen10:11 From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
Gen10:12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (that is the principal city).
Gen10:13 Mizraim begot Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
Gen10:14 Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim).
Gen10:15 Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth;
Gen10:16 the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite;
Gen10:17 the Hivite, the Arkite, and the Sinite;
Gen10:18 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed.
Gen10:19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
Gen10:20 These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations.
Gen10:21 And children were born also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.
Gen10:22 The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
Gen10:23 The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
Gen10:24 Arphaxad begot Salah, and Salah begot Eber.
Gen10:25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
Gen10:26 Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Gen10:27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
Gen10:28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
Gen10:29 Ophir, Havilah, and ab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
Gen10:30 And their dwelling place was from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
Gen10:31 These were the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations.
Gen10:32 These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.