4. The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5. Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
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 became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9. He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.
10. The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11. Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
12. and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
13. Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
14. Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
15. Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), 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 families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.