Genesis Chapter 10

The Table of Nations

¹ The Generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth,

Noah’s Sons and Their Descendants

² Japheth was the father of Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

                        ³ Gomer was the father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

⁴ Javan was the father of Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

⁵ Those descendants spread inland from the coasts into their nations, each by language and clan.  

Gen 10:1-5

          ⁶ Ham was the father of Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 

⁷Cush was the father of Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca.

Raamah was the father of Sheba and Dedan.

⁸ Cush was also the father of Nimrod, who became prominent in the world, ⁹ a great hunter before the LORD. It became an expression, “Like Nimrod, a great hunter before the LORD.” ¹⁰ His kingdom stretched across Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in Shinar. ¹¹ From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, ¹² and Resen, a big city between Nineveh and Calah.

¹³ Mizraim became the father of the Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, ¹⁴ Pathrusim, Casluhim (ancestors of the Philistines), and Caphtorim.     

Gen 10:6-14

¹⁵ Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, Heth, ¹⁶ the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, ¹⁷ Hivites, Arkites, Simites, ¹⁸ Arvadites, Zemarites, Hamathites. Afterwards the Canaanite clans spread out ¹⁹ from Sidon—on the way to Gera—as far as Gaza across to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.

²⁰ Those were Ham’s descendants by clan, language, territory, and nation.       

Gen 10:15-20

²¹ Shem, Japheth’s older brother, became the ancestor of Eber’s descendants. ²² Shem’s sons were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

²³ Aram’s sons were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 

²⁴ Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, father of Eber.

²⁵ Eber had two sons.

One was Peleg; in his time the earth divided. Joktan was his brother, ²⁶ and father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ²⁹ Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. ³⁰ They lived from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern hill country.

³¹ Those were Shem’s descendants by clan, language, territory, and nation.

³² Those were the clans of Noah’s descendants by genealogy, language, and nation. Nations spread out from them after the flood.                                       

Gen 10:21-32