9. He was a great hunter before the Lord. That is why people say someone is “like Nimrod, a great hunter before the Lord.”
10. At first Nimrod’s kingdom covered Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh in the land of Babylonia.
11. From there he went to Assyria. There he built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir and Calah.
12. He also built Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.
13. Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
14. Pathrusites, Casluhites and the people of Crete. (The Philistines came from the Casluhites.)
15. Canaan was the father of Sidon his first son and of Heth.
16. Canaan was also the father of the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
17. Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
18. Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. The families of the Canaanites scattered.
19. The land of the Canaanites reached from Sidon to Gerar as far as Gaza. And it reached to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
20. All these people were the sons of Ham. All these families had their own languages, their own lands and their own nations.