Genesis 10

1This is the account of the descendants of Noah’s sons, 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 out into their lands, each with its own language, by their clans, within 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, who began to be a mighty warrior on the earth.

9He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh.”

10The first centers of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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

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

13Egypt fathered the Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

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

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

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

21Children were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth. Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.

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

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

24Arphaxad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.

25Two sons were born to Eber. The name of one was Peleg, because 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 region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, the hill country of the east.

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

32These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.