- 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.
- The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
- The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
- Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
- The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
- Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
- He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."
- The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
- and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).
- Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
- Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
- Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
- the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,
- the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,
- the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
- 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.
- These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
- To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.
- The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
- The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
- Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
- 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.
- Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
- Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
- Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
- Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
- Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
- These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.
- 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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