The descendants of Noah’s sons

1◄This is/I will now give► a list of the descendants of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They had many children after the flood.

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

3The sons of Gomer were Askenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

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

5Those sons and their families who were descended from Javan lived on the islands and on the land close to the Mediterranean Sea. Their descendants became tribes, each with its own language and clans and territory.

6The descendants of Ham were Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

7The descendants of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

8Another one of Cush’s descendants was Nimrod. Nimrod was the first person on earth who became a mighty warrior.

9Yahweh saw that he had become (OR, caused him to become) a great hunter. That is why people say to a great hunter, “Yahweh ◄sees that you are/has caused you to be► a great hunter like Nimrod.”

10Nimrod became a king who ruled in Babylonia. The first cities over which he ruled were Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh.

11From there he went with others to Assyria and built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

12and Resen. Resen was a large city between Nineveh and Calah.

13Ham’s son, Egypt, became the ancestor of the Lud, Anam, Lehab and Naphtuh,

14Pathrus, Casluh and Caphtor people-groups. The Philistine people were descended from Casluh.

15Ham’s youngest son, Canaan, became the father of Sidon, who was his eldest son, and Heth, his younger son.

16Canaan was also the ancestor of the Jebus, Amor, Girgash,

17Hiv, Ark, Sin,

18Arved, Zemar and Hamath people-groups. Later the descendants of Canaan dispersed over a large area.

19Their land extended from Sidon city in the north as far south as Gaza town, and then to the east as far as Gerar town, and then farther east to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim towns, and even as far as Lasha town.

20Those are the descendants of Ham. They became groups that had their own clans, their own languages, and their own land.

21Shem, the older brother of Japheth, became the father of Eber, and the ancestor of all the descendants of Eber.

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

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

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

25Eber became the father of two sons. One of them was named Peleg, which means ‘division’, because during the time he lived, people on [MTY] the earth became divided and scattered everywhere. Peleg’s younger brother was Joktan.

26Joktan became the ancestor of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

28Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All those people were descended from Joktan.

30The areas in which they lived extended from Mesha westward to Sephar, which is in the ◄hill country/area that has a lot of hills►.

31They are descendants of Shem. They became groups that had their own clans, their own languages, and their own land.

32All those groups descended from the sons of Noah. Each group had its own ◄genealogy/record of people’s ancestors► and each became a separate ethnic group. Those ethnic groups formed after the flood and spread all around the earth.