1 These are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. 2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 From these the coastland peoples spread out into their lands, each with its own language, according to their families and their nations. 6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan. 8 Cush fathered Nimrod. He began to be a mighty man on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.” 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, and Calah, 12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah. This is the great city. 13 Mizraim fathered the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, and the Naphtuhim, 14 the Pathrusim, the Casluhim—from whom the Philistines came—and the Caphtorim.

15 Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, 16 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, and the Girgashites, 17 the Hivites, the Arkites, and the Sinites, 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites spread out. 19 The territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha. 20 These were the sons of Ham, according to their families and their languages, in their lands and their nations.

21 Children were also born to Shem, the father of all the descendants of Eber and the elder brother of Japheth. 22 The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. 23 The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24 Arphaxad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber. 25 Two sons were born to Eber. The name of one was Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided; his brother’s name was Joktan. 26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, and Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, and Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. 30 Their dwelling place extended from Mesha toward Sephar, the hill country of the east. 31 These were the sons of Shem, according to their families and their languages, in their lands and according to their nations. 32 These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.