9. By the Lord's help he was a great hunter, and that is why people say, “May the Lord make you as great a hunter as Nimrod!”
10. At first his kingdom included Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all three of them in Babylonia.
11. From that land he went to Assyria and built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
12. and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
13. The descendants of Egypt were the people of Lydia, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,
14. Pathrus, Casluh, and of Crete, from whom the Philistines are descended.
15. Canaan's sons — Sidon, the eldest, and Heth — were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
16. Canaan was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
17. the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
18. the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. The different tribes of the Canaanites spread out,
19. until the Canaanite borders reached from Sidon southwards to Gerar near Gaza, and eastwards to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim near Lasha.
20. These are the descendants of Ham, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language.
21. Shem, the elder brother of Japheth, was the ancestor of all the Hebrews.