1. And these are the genealogical records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them 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 and Tarshish, Kittites and Dodanites.
5. From these the coastlands of the nations spread out in their lands, each one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.
6. Ham’s sons were Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan.
7. Cush’s sons were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And Raamah’s sons were Sheba, and Dedan.
8. Now Cush fathered Nimrod. He started to become mighty in the land.
9. He was a mighty hunter before Adonai. This is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Adonai.”
10. The beginning of his kingdom included Babel, Erech, Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11. From that land he went out to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rechovot-ir, Calah
12. and Resen, between Nineveh and Calah—it is the great city.
13. Mizraim fathered the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,
14. the Pathrusites, the Casluhites—from whom came the Philistines—and the Caphtorites.