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Genesis 10
The peopling of the earth[*a]
1 These are the descendants of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, to whom sons were born after the flood:
2 Japheth’s sons: Gomer, Magog, the Medes, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, Tiras.
3 Gomer’s sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, Togarmah.
4 Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim, the Dananites.
5 From these came the dispersal to the islands of the nations.[*b] These were Japheth’s sons, according to their countries and each of their languages, according to their tribes and their nations.
6 Ham’s sons: Cush, Misraim, Put, Canaan.
8 Cush became the father of Nimrod who was the first potentate on earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter in the eyes of Yahweh, hence the saying, ‘Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter in the eyes of Yahweh’.
10 First to be included in his empire were Babel, Erech and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.
11 From this country came Ashur, the builder of Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (this is the great city).
13 Misraim became the father of the people of Lud, of Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,
14 Pathros, Cusluh and Caphtor, from which the Philistines came.
15 Canaan became the father of Sidon, his first-born, then Heth,
16 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, Girgashites,
17 Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
18 Arvadites, Zemarites, Hamathites; later the Canaanite tribes scattered.
19 The Canaanite frontier stretched from Sidon in the direction of Gerar and as far as Gaza, then in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, and as far as Lesha.
20 These were Ham’s sons, according to their tribes and languages, according to their countries and nations.
21 Shem also was the father of children, the ancestor of all the sons of Eber and the elder brother of Japheth.
22 Shem’s sons: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram.
23 Aram’s sons: Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash.
24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.
25 To Eber were born two sons: the first was called Peleg, because it was in his time that the earth was divided, and his brother was called Joktan.
26 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
28 Obal, Abima-el, Sheba,
29 Ophir, Havilah, Jobab; all these are sons of Joktan.
30 They occupied a stretch of country from Mesha in the direction of Sephar, the eastern mountain range.
31 These were Shem’s sons, according to their tribes and languages, and according to their countries and nations.
32 These were the tribes of Noah’s sons, according to their descendants and their nations. From these came the dispersal of the nations over the earth, after the flood.