• The Table of Nations

  • 1 This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.

  • The Japhethites

  • 2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.
  • 3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
  • 4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites.
  • 5 (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)

  • The Hamites

  • 6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.
  • 7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
  • 8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior 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 first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.
  • 11 From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah
  • 12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.
  • 13 Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
  • 14 Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.
  • 15 Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
  • 16 Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
  • 17 Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
  • 18 Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered
  • 19 and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.
  • 20 These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

  • The Semites

  • 21 Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.
  • 22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.
  • 23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.
  • 24 Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah the father of Eber.
  • 25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
  • 26 Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
  • 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
  • 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
  • 29 Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
  • 30 The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
  • 31 These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
  • 32 These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.