1. These are the family records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.
2. Japheth’s sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3. Gomer’s sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4. And Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5. The coastland peoples spread out into their lands. These are Japheth’s sons by their clans, in their nations. Each group had its own language.
6. Ham’s sons: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
7. Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And Raamah’s sons: Sheba and Dedan.
8. Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first powerful man on earth.
9. He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord. That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord.”