⁶ Ham’s sons: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. ⁷ Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah’s sons: Sheba and Dedan. ⁸ Cush fathered Nimrod, the first great warrior on earth. ⁹ The Lord saw him as a great hunter, and so it is said, “Like Nimrod, whom the Lord saw as a great hunter.” ¹⁰ The most important cities in his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar. ¹¹ Asshur left that land and built Nineveh, Rehoboth City, Calah, ¹² and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah. ¹³ Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, ¹⁴ Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim,^[b] from which the Philistines came.

¹⁵ Canaan fathered Sidon his oldest son, and Heth, ¹⁶ the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, ¹⁷ the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, ¹⁸ the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. After this the Canaanite clans were dispersed. ¹⁹ The Canaanite boundary extends from Sidon by way of Gerar to Gaza and by way of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim to Lasha. ²⁰ These are Ham’s sons according to their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

²² Shem’s sons: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. ²³ Aram’s sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. ²⁴ Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber. ²⁵ To Eber were born two sons: The first was named Peleg,^[c] because during his lifetime the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan. ²⁶ Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ²⁹ Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All of these were Joktan’s sons. ³⁰ Their settlements extended from Mesha by way of Sephar, the eastern mountains. ³¹ These are Shem’s sons according to their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.