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.
11. Nimrod also went into Assyria. In Assyria, Nimrod built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, and
12. Resen. (Resen is the city between Nineveh and Calah, the big city.)
13. Mizraim was the father of the people of Lud, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,
14. Pathrus, Casluh, and Caphtor. (The Philistine people came from Casluh.)
15. Canaan was the father of Sidon. Sidon was Canaan’s first son. Canaan was also the father of the Hittites,
16. Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
17. Hivites, Arkites, the Sinites,
18. Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. The families of Canaan spread to different parts of the world.
19. The land where the Canaanites lived went from Sidon down along the coast to Gerar and from Gaza as far east as Sodom and Gomorrah and from Admah and Zeboiim as far north as Laish.
20. All these people were descendants of Ham. They are arranged by families, languages, countries, and nations.
21. Shem was Japheth’s older brother. One of Shem’s descendants was Eber, the father of all the Hebrew people.
22. Shem’s sons were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
23. Aram’s sons were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
24. Arphaxad was the father of Shelah. Shelah was the father of Eber.
25. Eber was the father of two sons. One son was named Peleg. He was given this name because the earth was divided during his life. The other son was named Joktan.
26. Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
27. Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,