Genesis 10

This is the record of {the names of} Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and the descendants they had after the flood {was over}. \*

Japheth’s sons {were} Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Gomer’s sons {were} Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

Javan’s sons {were} Elishah and Tarshish, {and he was the ancestor of} the Kittites and the Dodanites.

From Japheth’s {descendants} came the people groups who lived {in regions} near the sea. They moved to different places {and settled} in their {own} territories, and each {group} spoke its own language. They each had their {own} families, which {grew and} became their own people groups. \*

Ham’s sons {were} Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Cush’s sons {were} Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtecah. And Raamah’s sons {were} Sheba and Dedan. \*

Cush {also} had {a son named} Nimrod, who was the first {person} on earth to be a powerful {ruler}.

He was {also} a great hunter whom God blessed. That is why people say {about other great men}, “{That man is} like Nimrod, a great hunter whom God blessed.”

Nimrod started ruling as king {over} {the cities of} Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, {which were} {all} {located} in the region of Shinar. \*

From the land of Shinar he went to {the region of} Assyria, where he built {the cities of} Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

and Resen, {which is located} between {the cities of} Nineveh and the great city of Calah.

Mizraim was the ancestor of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,

Pathrusites, Casluhites, and Caphtorites. The Philistines descended from the Casluhites. \*

Canaan had Sidon {who was} his firstborn {son}. {He was} also {the ancestor of} the Hittites,

Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,

Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,

Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. Later, those families {that descended} from Canaan spread out, \*

so that the territory where they lived reached from {the city of} Sidon {in the north}, all the way {south} toward {the city of} Gerar to {the city of} Gaza, {then} as far {east} as {the cities of} Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, all the way to {the city of} Lasha.

Those {people} {were} Ham’s descendants and each one had his own family. Each family {grew and} became its own people group that spoke its own language and lived in its own territory. \*

Shem also had {some} sons. He {was} the ancestor of all the descendants of Eber, and his older brother was Japheth.

Shem’s sons {were} Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

Aram’s sons {were} Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. \*

Arpachshad had {a son named} Shelah, then Shelah had {a son named} Eber.

Then Eber had two sons. The name of the first {one} {was} Peleg, {which means “division,”} because during his lifetime {the people on} the earth divided {into separate groups} {and spread out everywhere}. Peleg’s {younger} brother’s name {was} Joktan. \*

Joktan had {sons named} Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. Those {were} all Joktan’s sons. \*

The region where they {and their descendants} lived reached from {the city of} Mesha {in the west} all the way to {the city of} Sephar, {which is in} the hill country in the east.

Those {people} {are} Shem’s descendants and each one had his own family. Each family {grew and} became its own people group that spoke its own language and lived in its own territory. \*

{All} those family groups descended from Noah’s sons. Each family group had its own descendants and became its own people group. In fact, after the flood {all} the people groups on the earth descended from them and spread out everywhere. \*