1. This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.The Japhethites
2. The sons of Japheth:Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.
3. The sons of Gomer:Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
4. The sons of Javan:Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites.
5. (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)The Hamites
6. The sons of Ham:Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.
7. The sons of Cush:Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka.The sons of Raamah:Sheba and Dedan.
8. Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.
9. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, ‘Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.’
10. The first centres of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.
11. From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah
12. and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah – which is the great city.
13. Egypt was the father ofthe Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
14. Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.
15. Canaan was the father ofSidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
16. Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
17. Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,