Chapter 10
1 Now 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 .
2 The sons of Japheth were : Gomer , Magog , Madai , Javan , Tubal , Meshech , and Tiras .
3 The sons of Gomer were : Ashkenaz, Riphath , and Togarmah .
4 The sons of Javan were : Elishah, Tarshish , Kittim , and Dodanim .
5 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language , after their families , in their nations .
6 The sons of Ham were : Cush , Mizraim , Put , and Canaan .
7 The sons of Cush were : Seba , Havilah , Sabtah , Raamah , and Sabteca . The sons of Raamah were : Sheba and Dedan .
8 Cush became the father of Nimrod . He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD . Therefore it is said , " like Nimrod , a mighty hunter before the LORD ".
10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh , in the land of Shinar .
11 Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh , Rehoboth Ir, Calah ,
12 and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah .
13 Mizraim became the father of Ludim , Anamim , Lehabim , Naphtuhim ,
14 Pathrusim , Casluhim ( which the Philistines descended from ), and Caphtorim .
15 Canaan became the father of Sidon ( his firstborn ), Heth ,
16 the Jebusites , the Amorites, the Girgashites ,
17 the Hivites , the Arkites , the Sinites ,
18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites , and the Hamathites . Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad .
19 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon — as you go towards Gerar — to Gaza — as you go towards Sodom , Gomorrah , Admah, and Zeboiim — to Lasha .
20 These are the sons of Ham , after their families , according to their languages , in their lands and their nations .
21 Children were also born to Shem ( the elder brother of Japheth ), the father of all the children of Eber .
22 The sons of Shem were : Elam , Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud , and Aram.
23 The sons of Aram were : Uz , Hul , Gether , and Mash .
24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah . Shelah became the father of Eber .
25 To 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 .
26 Joktan became 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 Their dwelling extended from Mesha , as you go towards Sephar , the mountain of the east .
31 These are the sons of Shem , by their families , according to their languages , lands, and nations .
32 These 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 .