• Nations Descended from Noah

  • 1 Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And 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 of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.
  • 6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
  • 7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
  • 8 Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.
  • 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.”
  • 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  • 11 From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
  • 12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (that is the principal city).
  • 13 Mizraim begot Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
  • 14 Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim).
  • 15 Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth;
  • 16 the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite;
  • 17 the Hivite, the Arkite, and the Sinite;
  • 18 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed.
  • 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
  • 20 These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations.
  • 21 And children were born also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.
  • 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 begot Salah, and Salah begot Eber.
  • 25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
  • 26 Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
  • 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
  • 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
  • 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
  • 30 And their dwelling place was from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
  • 31 These were the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations.
  • 32 These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.