Genesis 10

¹ This is the story of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons. They had their own sons after the flood.

² The male descendants of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek, and Tiras.

³ The male descendants of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

⁴ The male descendants of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

⁵ (From these guys, the seafaring folk spread out into their own territories with their own clans within each nation, and they all had their own language.)

⁶ The male descendants of Ham were: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

⁷ The male descendants of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteka. The male descendants of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

⁸ Cush had a descendant named Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior.

⁹ He was the greatest hunter on God’s green earth; that’s where we get the saying, “Like Nimrod, the greatest hunter on God’s green earth.”

¹⁰ He built the cities of Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Babylonia.

¹¹ From there he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, with all its great city streets, Calah,

¹² and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.

¹³ Egypt’s descendants were the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,

^14 the Pathrusites, the Kasluhites (ancestors of the Philistines) and the Caphtorites.

¹⁵ Canaan’s descendants were first the Sidonians, and later the Hittites,

^16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

¹⁷ the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

¹⁸ the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later on the Canaanite clans scattered all over,

¹⁹ and they lived all over the place from Sidon and Gerar in the north all the way to Gaza in the south, and east out to places like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, and even Lasha.

²⁰ These guys were all descendants of Ham, broken up by clan and what language they spoke, and where they lived.

²¹ Shem also had male descendants, (he was Japheth’s older brother, remember); all the people of Eber came from him.

²² Shem’s male descendants were: Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

²³ Aram’s male descendants were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshek.

²⁴ Arphaxad had a kid named Cainan, who had a kid named Shelah, who had a kid named Eber.

²⁵ Eber had two sons: One was named Division (a.k.a. Peleg), because during his lifetime people were divided into different groups; he had a brother named Joktan.

²⁶ Joktan’s male descendants were Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

²⁹ Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these guys were descendants of Joktan.

³⁰ The area where they lived went from Mesha to around Sephar, in the eastern hill country.

³¹ These are all the descendants of Shem based on their clans and languages, the areas where they lived.

³² This was a list of all the clans of Noah’s descendants, based on which of his sons they came from, and each of their nations that was built up. From these clans all the nations in the world sprang up and spread out all over the world.