The Table of Nations

¹This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.

²The sons of Japheth:[#10:2 may mean descendants or successors or nations ; also in verses 3, 4, 6, 7, 20-23, 29 and 31.]

³The sons of Gomer:

⁴The sons of Javan:

⁶The sons of Ham:

⁷The sons of Cush:

The sons of Raamah:

⁸Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.[#10:8 may mean ancestor or predecessor or founder; also in verses 13, 15, 24 and 26.]

⁹He was a mighty hunter before the Lord ; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord .”

¹⁰The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.[#10:10 Or Uruk and Akkad—all of them in; #10:10 That is, Babylonia]

¹¹From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah[#10:11 Or Nineveh with its city squares]

¹²and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.

¹³Egypt was the father of

¹⁵Canaan was the father of

Later the Canaanite clans scattered

¹⁹and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.

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

²¹Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.[#10:21 Or Shem, the older brother of]

²²The sons of Shem:

²³The sons of Aram:

²⁴Arphaxad was the father of Shelah,[#10:24 Hebrew; Septuagint father of Cainan, and Cainan was the father of]

²⁵Two sons were born to Eber:

²⁶Joktan was the father of

³⁰The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.

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