The Table of Nations
1. This is the account of the families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the three sons of Noah. Many sons were born to them after the flood.
2. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3. The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4. The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
5. From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories, each with their own language, by their clans within their nations.
6. The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
7. The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
8. Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth.
9. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”
10. The primary regions of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11. From that land he went forth to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
12. and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
13. Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
14. Pathrusites, Casluhites (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 were scattered
19. and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
20. These are the sons of Ham, according to their clans and languages, by their territories and nations.
21. Sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.
22. The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
23. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
24. Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was 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 the sons of Joktan.
30. Their region extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
31. These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans and languages, by 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 of the earth spread out after the flood.