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10:1  Now these are the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. And sons were born to them after the flood.
10:2  The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek, and Tiras.
10:3  The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
10:4  The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.
10:5  From these the coastlands of the nations were divided into their lands, everyone according to his tongue, according to their families, by their nations.
10:6  The sons of Ham were Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
10:7  The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteka; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
10:8  Cush was the father of Nimrod. He became a mighty one on the earth.
10:9  He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Even like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.”
10:10  The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Uruk, Akkad, and Kalneh in the land of Shinar.
10:11  From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, the city Rehoboth Ir, and Calah,
10:12  and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (that is the principal city).
10:13  Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
10:14  Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom came the Philistines), and Caphtorites.
10:15  Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn and Heth,
10:16  and the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
10:17  Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
10:18  Arvadites, Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
10:19  The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon toward Gerar to Gaza, and then to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.
10:20  These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations.
10:21  To Shem, who was the father of all the children of Eber, whose older brother was Japheth, were sons born also.
10:22  The sons of Shem were Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
10:23  The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshek.
10:24  Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.
10:25  To Eber were born two sons. The name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; his brother’s name was Joktan.
10:26  Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
10:27  Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
10:28  Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
10:29  Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
10:30  Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way to Sephar, the hill country of the east.
10:31  These are the sons of Shem, by their families and their language, in their lands and their nations.
10:32  These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations. From these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.