¹Now this is the lineage of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and sons were born to them after the flood. ²The sons of Japheth were Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. ³And the sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah. ⁴And the sons of Javan were Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim. ⁵From these the coastlands of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, each one according to his language, by their families in their nations. ⁶And the sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. ⁷And the sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabtechah. And the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan. ⁸And Cush begot Nimrod. He started to become mighty in the land. ⁹He became a mighty hunter before the Lord. On account of that there is a saying, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.” ¹⁰And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon and Erech and Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar. ¹¹From that land Ashshur emerged, and he built Nineveh and Rehoboth City and Calah, ¹²and Resen between Nineveh and Calah. This is the great city. ¹³And Mizraim begot Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim, ¹⁴and Pathrusim, and Casluhim from whom the Philistines emerged, and the Caphtorites. ¹⁵And Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn and Heth, ¹⁶and the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite, ¹⁷and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite, ¹⁸and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite. Then afterwards the families of the Canaanites spread out. ¹⁹And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as one goes to Gerar as far as Gaza, as one goes to Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim, as far as Lasha. ²⁰These were the sons of Ham by their families, by their languages, in their territories, in their nations. ²¹And to Shem also offspring were born. He is the father of all the sons of Eber the brother of Japheth the elder. ²²The sons of Shem were Elam and Ashshur and Arphaxad and Lud and Aram. ²³And the sons of Aram were Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash. ²⁴And Arphaxad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber. ²⁵And by Eber two sons were begotten. The name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth became divided, and the name of his brother was Joktan. ²⁶And Joktan begot Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah, ²⁷and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah, ²⁸and Obal and Abimael and Sheba, ²⁹and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All of these were the sons of Joktan, ³⁰and their dwelling place was from Mesha as one goes to Sephar, the mountain of the east. ³¹These were the sons of Shem by their families, by their languages, in their territories, by their nations. ³²These were the families of the sons of Noah by their family histories in their nations, and from these the nations separated off on the earth after the flood.