7. The sons of Cush wereSeba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteka;and the sons of Raamah wereSheba and Dedan.
8. Cush was the father of Nimrod. He became a mighty one on the earth.
9. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Even like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.”
10. The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Uruk, Akkad, and Kalneh in the land of Shinar.
11. From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, the city Rehoboth Ir, and Calah,
12. and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (that is the principal city).
13. Egypt was the father ofthe Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
14. Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom came the Philistines), and Caphtorites.
15. Canaan was the father ofSidon his firstborn and Heth,
16. and the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
17. Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
18. Arvadites, Zemarites, and the Hamathites.Later the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
19. The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon toward Gerar to Gaza, and then to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.