1 These [are] the generations of the sons of Noah--Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Children were born to them after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5 From these the coastland peoples spread out through their lands, each according to his own language by their own families, in their nations.
6 And the sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
8 And Cush fathered Nimrod. {He was the first on earth to be a mighty warrior}.
9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it was said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahweh."
10 Now, the beginning of his kingdom [was] Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 From that land he went out [to] Assyria, and he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that [is] the great city.
13 And Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
14 Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim.
15 Canaan fathered Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,
16 and 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.
19 And the territory of the Canaanites [was] from Sidon {in the direction of} Gerar as far as Gaza, and {in the direction of} Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
20 These [are] the descendants of Ham, according to their families and their languages, in their lands, and in their nations.
21 And to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the older brother of Japheth, [children] were also born.
22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
24 And Arphaxad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.
25 And to Eber two sons were born. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother [was] Joktan.
26 And Joktan fathered 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 And their dwelling [place] {extended from} Mesha {in the direction of} Sephar [to] the hill country of the east.
31 These [are] the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, and according to their nations.