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 towards Gerar —to Gaza —as you go towards 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 elder brother of Japheth ), the father of all the children of Eber .

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 towards 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 .