Genesis 10

¹ This is the family record of Noah’s sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and the children born to them after the flood.

² The sons of Japheth:

• Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

³ The sons of Gomer:

• Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

⁴ The sons of Javan:

• Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

⁵ From these, the people of the seacoasts and islands spread out into their own lands, each group according to its own language, families, and nations.

⁶ The sons of Ham:

• Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

⁷ The sons of Cush:

• Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca.

• The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

⁸ Cush was also the father of Nimrod, who grew to become the first mighty warrior on the earth.

⁹ He was a predatory warlord in defiance of The Sovereign, The Self-Existent; that is why people say, “Like Nimrod, a predatory warlord in defiance of The Sovereign.”

¹⁰ The core hubs of his empire were:

• Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

¹¹ From that land he expanded into Assyria, where he built:

• Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, 

• ¹² and Resen (the great city located between Nineveh and Calah).

¹³ Mizraim was the ancestor of:

• The Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, 

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

¹⁵ Canaan was the father of:

• Sidon (his firstborn) and Heth, 

• ¹⁶ as well as the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, 

• 17 Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, 

• ¹⁸ Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites.

Later, the Canaanite families spread out even further, 

¹⁹ until the borders of Canaan stretched from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, all the way to Lasha.

²⁰ These are the descendants of Ham, listed by their families and languages, within their lands and nations.

²¹ Sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth and the ancestor of all the descendants of Eber.

²² The sons of Shem:

• Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

²³ The sons of Aram:

• Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

²⁴ Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

²⁵ Two sons were born to Eber:

• The name of the first was Peleg (Fracture), for in his lifespan the land was fractured; and his brother's name was Joktan.

²⁶ Joktan was the father of:

• Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 

• ²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 

• ²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 

• ²⁹ Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

³⁰ The territory they inhabited stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, into the eastern hill country.

³¹ These are the descendants of Shem, listed by their families and languages, within their lands and nations.

³² This concludes the families of Noah’s sons, listed according to their lineage histories, within their nations. From these, the nations spread out across the land after the flood.