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10:1  And these are the genealogical records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
10:2  Japheth’s sons were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.
10:3  Gomer’s sons were Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
10:4  Javan’s sons were Elishah and Tarshish, Kittites and Dodanites.
10:5  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.
10:6  Ham’s sons were Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan.
10:7  Cush’s sons were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And Raamah’s sons were Sheba, and Dedan.
10:8  Now Cush fathered Nimrod. He started to become mighty in the land.
10:9  He was a mighty hunter before Adonai. This is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Adonai.”
10:10  The beginning of his kingdom included Babel, Erech, Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
10:11  From that land he went out to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rechovot-ir, Calah
10:12  and Resen, between Nineveh and Calah—it is the great city.
10:13  Mizraim fathered the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,
10:14  the Pathrusites, the Casluhites—from whom came the Philistines—and the Caphtorites.
10:15  Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, Heth,
10:16  the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,
10:17  the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,
10:18  the Arvadite, the Zemarite and the Hamathite—and afterwards, the Canaanite families were scattered.
10:19  Now the Canaanite border was from Zidon, as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
10:20  These are Ham’s sons according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
10:21  Sons were also born to Shem, who was Japheth’s older brother and the father of all the sons of Eber.
10:22  Shem’s sons were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram.
10:23  Aram’s sons were Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash.
10:24  Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.
10:25  Two sons were born to Eber. The name of the first was Peleg—because in his days the land was divided—and his brother’s name was Joktan.
10:26  Joktan fathered Elmodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
10:27  Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
10:28  Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
10:29  Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All of these are Joktan’s sons.
10:30  Their dwelling place was from Mesha till you come toward Sephar, the eastern hill country.
10:31  These are Shem’s sons, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations.
10:32  These are the families of the sons of Noah according to their genealogies in their nations, and from these the nations were dispersed on the earth after the flood.