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10:1  These are the family records of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons 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  And Javan's sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
10:5  The coastland peoples spread out into their lands. These are Japheth's sons by their clans, in their nations. Each group had its own language.
10:6  Ham's sons: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
10:7  Cush's sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And Raamah's sons: Sheba and Dedan.
10:8  Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first powerful man on earth.
10:9  He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the LORD. That is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the LORD."
10:10  His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
10:11  From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
10:12  and Resen, between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
10:13  Mizraim fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
10:14  Pathrusim, Casluhim (the Philistines came from them), and Caphtorim.
10:15  Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, then 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. Afterward the Canaanite clans scattered.
10:19  The Canaanite border went from Sidon going toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and going toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.
10:20  These are Ham's sons, by their clans, according to their languages, in their own lands and their nations.
10:21  And Shem, Japheth's older brother, also had sons. Shem was 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: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
10:24  Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.
10:25  Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg, for during his days the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
10:26  And Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
10:27  Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
10:28  Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
10:29  Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were Joktan's sons.
10:30  Their settlements extended from Mesha to Sephar, the eastern hill country.
10:31  These are Shem's sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
10:32  These are the clans of Noah's sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.