The Table of Nations
1This is the account of the sons of Noah — Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. 2The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5From these the maritime peoples spread out into their lands, each according to its language, according to its clans, within its nations. 6The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 7The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtecha. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 8Cush fathered Nimrod, who became the first great warrior on earth. 9He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh.” 10The heart of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11From that land he went out to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, and Calah, 12and Resen, between Nineveh and Calah — that is the great city. 13Egypt fathered the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites, 14the Pathrusites, the Casluhites — from whom the Philistines came — and the Caphtorites. 15Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, 16as well as the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the clans of the Canaanites scattered, 19and the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon toward Gerar, as far as Gaza, and toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. 20These are the sons of Ham, according to their clans and languages, in their lands and nations. 21Sons were also born to Shem, the father of all the sons of Eber and the older brother of Japheth. 22The sons of Shem: Elam, Assyria, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. 23The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber. 25To Eber two sons were born. The name of the first was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; his brother’s name was Joktan. 26Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan. 30Their territory extended from Mesha toward Sephar, the hill country of the east. 31These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans and languages, in their lands and nations. 32These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their lines of descent, within their nations; from these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.
