Genesis 10:6-20

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⁶ The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, Canaan.

⁷ The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabteca.

The sons of Raamah were: Sheba, Dedan.

⁸ One of the descendants^[a] of Cush was Nimrod, who became the first of the kings. ⁹ He was a mighty hunter, blessed of God,^[b] and his name became proverbial. People would speak of someone as being “like Nimrod—a mighty hunter, blessed of God.” ¹⁰ The heart of his empire included Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar. ^11-12 From there he extended his reign to Assyria. He built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and Resen (which is located between Nineveh and Calah), the main city of the empire.

^13-14 Mizraim was the ancestor^[c] of the people inhabiting these areas: Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.

^15-19 Canaan’s oldest son was Sidon, and he was also the father of Heth; from Canaan descended these nations: Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, Hamathites. Eventually the descendants of Canaan spread from Sidon all the way to Gerar, in the Gaza strip; and to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, near Lasha.

²⁰ These, then, were the descendants of Ham, spread abroad in many lands and nations, with many languages.