8. Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first to be a mighty man on the earth.
9. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.
10. The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [in Babylonia].
11. Out of the land he [Nimrod] went forth into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
12. And Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; all these [suburbs combined to form] the great city.
13. And Egypt [Mizraim] became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
14. Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.
15. Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth [the Hittites],
16. The Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
17. The Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
18. The Arvadites, the Zemarites and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites spread abroad
19. And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon as one goes to Gerar as far as Gaza, and as one goes to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.