1. This is the history of the families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They are Noah’s sons. These men had children after the flood.
2. Japheth’s sons were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3. Gomer’s sons were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4. Javan’s sons were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5. All the people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea came from these sons of Japheth. The people separated and went to different countries according to languages, families, and nations.
6. Ham’s sons were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
7. Cush’s sons were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah’s sons were Sheba and Dedan.
8. Cush also had a son named Nimrod who became a very powerful man on earth.
9. He was a great hunter before the Lord. That is why people compare other men to him and say, “That man is like Nimrod, a great hunter before the Lord.”
10. Nimrod’s kingdom spread from Babylon to Erech, to Akkad, and then to Calneh in the land of Babylonia.