1This is the story of the descendants of Noah’s three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. After the great flood, they fathered many children. Descendants of Japheth
2The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Cyprus, and Rhodes.
5All of Japheth’s descendants lived in their respective tribes and regions, each group speaking its own language. From there, the people spread to distant shores and faraway lands.
Descendants of Ham6The sons of Ham were Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya, and Canaan.
7The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca.
The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
8Cush also had a son named Nimrod, who became known as the first mighty conqueror.
9He was a mighty despot before Yahweh . There was a saying, “Like Nimrod, a mighty despot before Yahweh.”
10The centers of his kingdom , Babel, Erech, and Akkad, were in the land of Shinar.
11From there, he went into Assyria and built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
12and Resen (which is between the great city of Calah and Nineveh).
13Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
14Pathrusites, Casluhites, and Caphtorites (the ancestors of the Philistines).
15Canaan was the father of Sidon (his firstborn), the Hittites,
16the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. The families of the Canaanites eventually scattered across
19the Canaanite territory extending from Sidon toward Gerar to Gaza including Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
20These were the descendants of Ham by families, lands, languages, and nations.
Descendants of Shem21Shem, the older brother of Japheth, also had sons and was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber, who were also known as “Hebrews.”
22The sons of Shem were Elam, Assyria, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
23The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
24Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, the father of Eber.
25-26Eber was the father of two sons: Peleg, (or “Division,” for during his lifetime the earth was divided), and his brother Joktan, the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
28Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All the descendants of Joktan
30lived in the territory that extends all the way from Mesha toward the eastern hills of Sephar.
31These were the families of Shem according to their genealogies, by their families, lands, languages, and nations.
32After the flood, Noah’s descendants formed nations as the people spread throughout the earth.
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