1The following are the genealogies ⁴⁰of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They had sons born to them after the flood.

2The sons ⁴¹of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

3The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

4The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. ⁴²

5The descendants of these ancestors spread throughout the coastal areas, each group having their own language, with their families developing into different nations.

6The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

7The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

8Cush was also the father of Nimrod, who set himself up as the first tyrant on earth.

9He was a powerful fighter who defied ⁴³the Lord; which is why there's the expression, “Like Nimrod, a powerful fighter who defied the Lord.”

10His kingdom began in the cities of Babel, ⁴⁴Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, all located in the land of Shinar. ⁴⁵

11From there he moved into Assyria ⁴⁶and built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

12and Resen, which lies between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.

13Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,

14the Pathrusites, the Casluhites, and the Caphtorites (ancestors of the Philistines). ⁴⁷

15Canaan was the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and of the Hittites, ⁴⁸

16the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite tribes spread out

19and the territory of the Canaanites stretched from Sidon towards Gerar and all the way to Gaza, then towards Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, all the way to Lasha.

20These were the sons of Ham according to their tribes, languages, lands, and nation.

21Shem, whose older brother ⁴⁹was Japheth, also had sons. Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.

22The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

23The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. ⁵⁰

24Arphaxad was the father of Shelah. Shelah was the father of Eber.

25Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg, ⁵¹because in his time the earth was divided; the name of his brother was Joktan.

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

27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

28Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. These were all sons of Joktan.

30They lived in the land lying between Mesha to Sephar, in the hill country to the east.

31These were the sons of Shem, according to their tribes, languages, lands, and nations.

32These were all the tribes descended from Noah's sons, according to their genealogies and national groups. From these ancestors the different nations of the earth spread around the world after the flood.