1-4. Adam was the father of Seth, and his descendants were Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah, who had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
5. Japheth was the father of Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras, and they were the ancestors of the kingdoms named after them.
6. Gomer was the ancestor of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
7. Javan was the ancestor of Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
8. Ham was the father of Ethiopia, Egypt, Put, and Canaan, and they were the ancestors of the kingdoms named after them.
9. Ethiopia was the ancestor of Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah was the ancestor of Sheba and Dedan.
10. Ethiopia was also the father of Nimrod, the world's first mighty warrior.
11. Egypt was the ancestor of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
12. Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim, the ancestor of the Philistines.
13. Canaan's eldest son was Sidon; his other son was Heth.
14-16. Canaan was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.
17. Shem was the ancestor of Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech; they were the ancestors of the kingdoms named after them.
18. Arpachshad was Shelah's father and Eber's grandfather.
19. Eber named his first son Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided into tribal regions. Eber's second son was Joktan,
20-23. the ancestor of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab.