1. This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their descendants. Shem, Ham and Japheth had children after the flood.
2. Japheth’s descendants wereGomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3. Gomer’s descendants wereAshkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4. Javan’s descendants werethe people from Elishah, Tarshish, Cyprus, and Rhodes.
5. From these descendants the people of the coastlands spread into their own countries. Each nation had its own language and families.
6. Ham’s descendants wereCush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
7. Cush’s descendants wereSeba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah,and Sabteca.Raamah’s descendants wereSheba and Dedan.
8. Cush was the father of Nimrod, the first mighty warrior on the earth.
9. He was a mighty hunter whom the Lord blessed. That’s why people used to say, “⌊He’s⌋ like Nimrod, a mighty hunter whom the Lord blessed.”
10. The first ⌊cities⌋ in his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in Shinar [Babylonia].
11. He went from that land to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,