8. Cush also had a descendant named Nimrod. Nimrod became a very powerful man on earth.
9. He was a great hunter before the Lord. That is why people say someone is “like Nimrod, a great hunter before the Lord.”
10. At first Nimrod’s kingdom covered Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh in the land of Babylonia.
11. From there he went to Assyria. There he built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir and Calah.
12. He also built Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.
13. Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
14. Pathrusites, Casluhites and the people of Crete. (The Philistines came from the Casluhites.)
15. Canaan was the father of Sidon his first son and of Heth.
16. Canaan was also the father of the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
17. Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
18. Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. The families of the Canaanites scattered.
19. The land of the Canaanites reached from Sidon to Gerar as far as Gaza. And it reached to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
20. All these people were the sons of Ham. All these families had their own languages, their own lands and their own nations.
21. Shem, Japheth’s older brother, also had sons. One of his descendants was the father of all the sons of Eber.
22. The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.
23. The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshech.
24. Arphaxad was the father of Shelah. Shelah was the father of Eber.
25. Eber was the father of two sons. One son was named Peleg because the earth was divided during his life. Eber’s other son was named Joktan.
26. Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
27. Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,