GodsWord - Genesis - 10

10:1  This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their descendants. Shem, Ham and Japheth had children after the flood.

10:2  Japheth's descendants were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

10:3  Gomer's descendants were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

10:4  Javan's descendants were the people from Elishah, Tarshish, Cyprus, and Rhodes.

10:5  From these descendants the people of the coastlands spread into their own countries. Each nation had its own language and families.

10:6  Ham's descendants were Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

10:7  Cush's descendants were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah's descendants were Sheba and Dedan.

10:8  Cush was the father of Nimrod, the first mighty warrior on the earth.

10:9  He was a mighty hunter whom the LORD blessed. That's why people used to say, "He's like Nimrod, a mighty hunter whom the LORD blessed."

10:10  The first cities in his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in Shinar Babylonia.

10:11  He went from that land to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

10:12  and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.

10:13  Egypt was the ancestor of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,

10:14  Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.

10:15  Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, then Heth,

10:16  also the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

10:17  the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

10:18  the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite families scattered.

10:19  The border of the Canaanites extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.

10:20  These were Ham's descendants by families and languages within their countries and nations.

10:21  Shem, Japheth's older brother, also had children. Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.

10:22  Shem's descendants were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

10:23  Aram's descendants were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

10:24  Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

10:25  Two sons were born to Eber. The name of the one was Peleg Division, because in his day the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.

10:26  Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

10:27  Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

10:28  Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

10:29  Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. These were Joktan's sons.

10:30  The region where they lived extended from Mesha toward Sephar in the eastern mountains.

10:31  These were Shem's descendants by families and languages within their countries according to their nations.

10:32  These were the families of Noah's sons listed by their genealogies, nation by nation. From these descendants the nations spread over the earth after the flood.