10:1 This is the family history of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham and Japheth. After the flood these three men had sons.
10:2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.
10:3 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
10:4 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.
10:5 Those who lived in the lands around the Mediterranean Sea came from these sons of Japheth. All the families grew and became different nations. Each nation had its own land and its own language.
10:6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan.
10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
10:8 Cush also had a descendant named Nimrod. Nimrod became a very powerful man on earth.
10:9 He was a great hunter before the Lord. That is why people say someone is “like Nimrod, a great hunter before the Lord.”
10:10 At first Nimrod’s kingdom covered Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh in the land of Babylonia.
10:11 From there he went to Assyria. There he built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir and Calah.
10:12 He also built Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.
10:13 Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
10:14 Pathrusites, Casluhites and the people of Crete. (The Philistines came from the Casluhites.)
10:15 Canaan was the father of Sidon his first son and of Heth.
10:16 Canaan was also the father of the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
10:29 Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these people were the sons of Joktan.
10:30 These people lived in the area between Mesha and Sephar in the hill country in the East.
10:31 These are the people from the family of Shem. They are arranged by families, languages, countries and nations.
10:32 This is the list of the families from the sons of Noah. They are arranged according to their nations. From these families came all the nations who spread across the earth after the flood.
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