Genesis 10:6-20

New Century Version

Ham’s Sons

⁶ The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim,^[a] Put, and Canaan.

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

The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

⁸ Cush also had a descendant named Nimrod, who became a very powerful man on earth. ⁹ He was a great hunter before the Lord, which is why people say someone is “like Nimrod, a great hunter before the Lord.” ¹⁰ At first Nimrod’s kingdom covered Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Babylonia. ¹¹ From there he went to Assyria, where he built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, and Calah. ¹² He also built Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.

¹³ Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, ¹⁴ Pathrusites, Casluhites, and the people of Crete. (The Philistines came from the Casluhites.)

¹⁵ Canaan was the father of Sidon, his first son, and of Heth. ¹⁶ He was also the father of the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, ¹⁷ Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, ¹⁸ Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. The families of the Canaanites scattered. ¹⁹ Their land reached from Sidon to Gerar as far as Gaza, and then to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

²⁰ All these people were the sons of Ham, and all these families had their own languages, their own lands, and their own nations.