- 1. Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters
- 2. The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
- 3. And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.
- 4. And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim.
- 5. From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.
- 6. And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
- 7. And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
- 8. And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.
- 9. He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.
- 10. And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- 11. From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,
- 12. And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great town.
- 13. And Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim;
- 14. And Pathrusim and Casluhim and Caphtorim, from whom came the Philistines.
- 15. And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,
- 16. And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,
- 17. And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,
- 18. And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions;
- 19. Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.
- 20. All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.
- 21. And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.
- 22. These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.
- 23. And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.
- 24. And Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.
- 25. And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.
- 26. And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah
- 27. And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah
- 28. And Obal and Abimael and Sheba
- 29. And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
- 30. And their country was from Mesha, in the direction of Sephar, the mountain of the east.
- 31. These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.
- 32. These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.
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