- Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.
- The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath,[1] and Togarmah.
- The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.[2]
- From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.
- The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put,[3] and Canaan.
- The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
- Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.
- He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD."
- And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
- and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (that is the principal city).
- Mizraim begot Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
- Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim).
- Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth;
- the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite;
- the Hivite, the Arkite, and the Sinite;
- the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed.
- And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
- These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations.
- And children were born also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.
- The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
- The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.[4]
- Arphaxad begot Salah,[5] and Salah begot Eber.
- To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
- Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
- Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
- Obal,[6] Abimael, Sheba,
- Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
- And their dwelling place was from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
- These were the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations.
- These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.
Nations Descended from Noah
- Spelled 'Diphath 'in 1 Chronicles 1:6
- Spelled 'Rodanim 'in Samaritan Pentateuch and 1 Chronicles 1:7
- Or 'Phut'
- Called 'Meshech 'in Septuagint and 1 Chronicles 1:17
- Following Masoretic Text, Vulgate, and Targum; Septuagint reads 'Arphaxad begot Cainan, and Cainan begot Salah' (compare Luke 3:35, 36).
- Spelled 'Ebal 'in 1 Chronicles 1:22