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.
16. He was also the father of the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
17. Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
18. Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. The families of the Canaanites scattered.