- 1. Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
- 2. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- 3. The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
- 4. The sons of Javan: 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: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- 7. The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: 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 forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
- 12. and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).
- 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 Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,
- 17. the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,
- 18. the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
- 19. The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.
- 20. These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
- 21. To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.
- 22. The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
- 23. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
- 24. Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
- 25. To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.
- 26. Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
- 27. Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
- 28. Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
- 29. Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
- 30. Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
- 31. These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.
- 32. These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
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