1. This is the family history of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. After the flood these three men had sons.
2. The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3. The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4. The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
5. Those who lived in the lands around the Mediterranean Sea came from these sons of Japheth. All the families grew and became different nations, each nation with its own land and its own language.
6. The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
7. The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca.The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
8. Cush also had a descendant named Nimrod, who became a very powerful man on earth.
9. He was a great hunter before the Lord, which 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, where 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.