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Genesis 10
The Nations of the World
101Now this is the account about the development of the groups of people who descended from Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. Sons[] were born to them after the flood.
The Descendants of Japheth
3The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
5The islands and coastlands were divided into different lands among these peoples on the basis of their languages, their ethnic groups, and their nations.
The Descendants of Ham
7The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Ra'amah, and Sabteca.
The sons of Ra'amah were Sheba and Dedan.
8Cush became the father of Nimrod. He was the first to be a mighty warrior on the earth. 9He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. That is why the saying is “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.” 10The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Uruk, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.[] 11From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, 12and Resen between Nineveh and Calah, the great city.
13Mizraim[] became the father of the Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines descended), and the Caphtorim.
15Canaan became the father of 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. Afterward the families of the Canaanites spread out. 19Then the borders of the Canaanites extended from Sidon, southward toward Gerar as far as Gaza; from there it extended eastward toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
20These were the sons of Ham, according to their ethnic groups, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
The Descendants of Shem
21Sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth,[] the father of all the descendants of Eber.
22The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
24Arphaxad became the father of Shelah.[] Shelah became the father of Eber. 25To Eber two sons were born. The name of one was Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided.[]
Eber's brother's name was Joktan. 26Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. 30Their dwelling was from Mesha all the way to Sephar, in the hill country of the east.
31These were the descendants of Shem according to their ethnic groups, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
32These are the families and groups of peoples descended from the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations. From these, nations spread out over the earth after the flood.
Footnotes
- 10:1 In these tables, sons in some cases includes descendants. Fathers in some cases means ancestors or forefathers.
- 10:2 Some of these names are the names both of ancestral individuals and of ethnic groups that were derived from them. Some of the names also serve as names of geographic places.
- 10:4 The names ending in -im are peoples rather than individuals. Usually we render these names with the suffix -ites, except for a few primordial groups whose names also occur as names of geographic places, such as the Valley of Rephaim. The name Kittim is retained because it is common in literature about the Bible.
- 10:6 Mizraim is the Hebrew name for Egypt.
- 10:10 That is, Babylon
- 10:13 Mizraim is the Hebrew name for Egypt.
- 10:21 Or whose older brother was Japheth, but this translation does not fit the Hebrew construction as well as the translation above does.
- 10:23 The Greek text and 1 Chronicles 1:17 read Meshek.
- 10:24 Some manuscripts of the Greek Old Testament have an extra generation (Cainan or Kenan) between Arphaxad and Shelah. See the note on Genesis 11:13.
- 10:25 Peleg means division.