Genesis 10:1-14 ▼

1 These are the records of the generations (descendants) of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and the sons born to them after the flood:

2 the sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras;

3 the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah;

4 the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

5 From these, [the people of] the coastlands of the nations were separated and spread into their lands, every one according to his own language, according to their constituent groups (families), and into their nations:

6 the sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim [from whom descended the Egyptians], Put, and Canaan;

7 the sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah; Sheba and Dedan.

8 Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [in Babylonia].

11 From that land Nimrod went to Assyria, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,

12 and [Nimrod built] Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; all these [combined to form] the great city [Nineveh].

13 Mizraim [the ancestor of the Egyptians] became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim

14 and Pathrusim and Casluhim—from whom came the Philistines—and Caphtorim.