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10:1  These are the descendants of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, to whom children were born after the flood.
10:2  Japheth’s sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
10:3  Gomer’s sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
10:4  Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
10:5  From these the island-nations were divided into their own countries, each according to their languages and their clans within their nations.
10:6  Ham’s sons: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
10:7  Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah’s sons: Sheba and Dedan.
10:8  Cush fathered Nimrod, the first great warrior on earth.
10:9  The Lord saw him as a great hunter, and so it is said, “Like Nimrod, whom the Lord saw as a great hunter.”
10:10  The most important cities in his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.
10:11  Asshur left that land and built Nineveh, Rehoboth City, Calah,
10:12  and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.
10:13  Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
10:14  Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim, from which the Philistines came.
10:15  Canaan fathered Sidon his oldest son, and Heth,
10:16  the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
10:17  the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
10:18  the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. After this the Canaanite clans were dispersed.
10:19  The Canaanite boundary extends from Sidon by way of Gerar to Gaza and by way of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim to Lasha.
10:20  These are Ham’s sons according to their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
10:21  Children were also born to Shem the father of all Eber’s children and Japheth’s older brother.
10:22  Shem’s sons: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
10:23  Aram’s sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
10:24  Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.
10:25  To Eber were born two sons: The first was named Peleg, because during his lifetime the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.
10:26  Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
10:27  Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
10:28  Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
10:29  Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All of these were Joktan’s sons.
10:30  Their settlements extended from Mesha by way of Sephar, the eastern mountains.
10:31  These are Shem’s sons according to their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
10:32  These are the clans of Noah’s sons according to their generations and their nations. From them the earth’s nations branched out after the flood.