1 Chronicles 1:1-18 ▼

1 Adam fathered Seth, who fathered Enosh,

2 who fathered Kenan, who fathered Mahalalel, who fathered Jared,

3 who fathered Enoch, who fathered Methuselah, who fathered Lamech,

4 who fathered Noah, who fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

5 Japheth's descendants were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

6 Gomer's descendants were Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.

7 Javan's descendants were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

8 Ham's descendants were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

9 Cush's descendants were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca. Raamah's descendants were Sheba and Dedan.

10 Cush fathered Nimrod. He became the first powerful ruler on the earth.

11 Mitzraim fathered the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, the Naphtuhim,

12 the Pathrusim, the Casluhim (from whom the Philistines descended) , and the Caphtorim.

13 Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, as well as Heth,

14 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

15 the Hivites, the Archites, the Sinites,

16 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

17 Shem's descendants were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.

18 Arpachshad fathered Shelah and Shelah fathered Eber.