1. These are the family records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.
2. Japheth’s sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3. Gomer’s sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4. And Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5. The coastland peoples spread out into their lands. These are Japheth’s sons by their clans, in their nations. Each group had its own language.
6. Ham’s sons: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
7. Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And Raamah’s sons: Sheba and Dedan.
8. Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first powerful man on earth.
9. He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord. That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord.”
10. His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11. From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
12. and Resen, between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
13. Mizraim fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
14. Pathrusim, Casluhim (the Philistines came from them), and Caphtorim.
15. Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, then 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 Canaanite clans scattered.
19. The Canaanite border went from Sidon going toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and going toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.
20. These are Ham’s sons, by their clans, according to their languages, in their own lands and their nations.