The story about Noah's family

1This story is about Shem, Ham and Jay-feth, the sons of Noah. It is a list of the children that were born after the flood.

The tribes that came from Jay-feth

2Jay-feth's sons were named Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Me-shek and Tiras.

3Gomer's sons were named Ash-ken-az, Rif-ath and Togar-mah.

4Javan's sons were named Elishah, Tar-shish, Kittim and Rod-anim.

5All of the people that came from Jay-feth had families and they ended up being different tribes. Every tribe had their own language and their own country. Some of these tribes lived in country next to the Mediterranean Sea.

The tribes that came from Ham

6Ham's sons were Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.

7Cush's sons were named Seba, Havi-lah, Sab-tah, Rarmah and Sab-teca. And the sons of Rarmah were named Sheba and Dedan.

8One of Cush's sons was named Nimrod. When Nimrod grew up he was a strong fighter, and with God's help he became a really good hunter. Whenever people talked about good hunters, they said things like, “That man is a really good hunter like Nimrod.”

10Later on, Nimrod was the boss of all the towns called Bab-y-lon, Erech, Accad and Cal-nar. All these towns were in a country called Shinah, which is another name for Bab-y-lonia.

11From there Nimrod went to another country called Assyria and he built the towns called Nineva, Re-ho-both Ir, Calah, and a big town called Resen. Resen was between Nineva and Calah.

A list of Ham's sons

13Ham had a son named Egypt. This is a list of Egypt's sons. Lud, Anam, Lehab, Naf-tuh, Path-rus, Cas-luh and Caf-tor. All these sons had families and their families grew so big they were called tribes. The Filistine nation came from the Cas-luh tribe.

15Ham's other son, Canaan, named his first son Sidon. These are the names of Canaan's other sons, Heth, Jebus, Amor, Girgash, Hiv, Arrk, Sinn, Arvad, Zemar, and Hamath. All these sons had families and their families grew so big they were called tribes. Later on, the tribes that came from Canaan split up and went to different places.

19The tribes that came from Canaan were called Canaanites. Those tribes lived in country that went as far north as a town called Sidon and as far south as the town of Gaza, and as far east as the towns called Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboy-im and Lasha.

20Yes, all these people were part of Ham's family. All the sons had their own tribes, languages and their own country.

The tribes that came from Shem

21Shem was Jay-feth's older brother and Eber's family were part of Shem's family.

22You see, Shem's sons were Elam, Ashur, Ar-faxad, Lud, and Aram.

23Aram's sons were named Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

24Ar-faxad's son was named Shelah, and he had a son named Eber.

25Eber had 2 sons. The first son was Peleg and his younger brother was Joktan. The name Peleg means split up. You see, Peleg was still alive when all the people split up into different tribes and went all over the world.

26Joktan was the father of Almo-dad, Shelef, Hazarm-aveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimale, Sheba, Ofir, Havi-lah, and Jobab. All of these people came from Joktan, and lived in the east hill country that goes from a place called Mesha all the way to another place called Seffar.

31All these people came from Shem. They were all different tribes and had their own country and their own language.

32And so this is a list of all the families and tribes that came from Noah. They split up into their own nations and spread out all over the earth after the big flood.