Genesis 10
Now these are the generations of the three sons of Noah: Japheth, Ham, and Shem
Sons were born to all Noah’s sons after the Flood, and so here we have tried to list them.
The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Javan, Madai, Tubal, Meshech, and then Tiras.
Gomer’s sons were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. (While Gomer was their daddy dearest.)
The sons of Javan were Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim, and Dodanim as well.
From these sons spread the maritime nations, coast peoples divided by lands where they dwell.
These are all the descendants of Japheth, each one with their own tongue, by clan and by nation.
Ham’s descendants were Cush, Mitzrayim, Put, and Canaan (cursed following Noah’s libation).
Cush’s sons were Seba, Habilah, Sabta, Raamah, Sabteca. Then Raamah had two
He had Sheba and Dedan. Then Cush begot Nimrod, the first mighty man that earth knew.
By God’s grace he was a mighty hunter– so mighty an old saying uses his name:
“So like Nimrod, a mighty hunter by God’s grace,” (as one might praise a hero of fame.)
Now his kingdom began with Babel, Erech, and Accad, all in the land of Shinar.
From this land Ashur set out and built Nineveh, along with city squares and Calah,
And between Nineveh and Calah, the great city of Resen. And then Mitzrayim
Fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, and the Calushim,
And also the Caphtorim, from where all the Philistines came. Canaan too begot sons:
There was Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth, along with Jebusite and the Amorite ones,
And the Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites.
Afterward, all the Canaanite clans spread abroad. Territory of the Canaanites
Had extended from Sidon, and then as you come toward Gerar, as far out as the Gaza.
And if you were to walk towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and towards Zeboiim and Admah,
There their borders extended as far as Lasha. Now these peoples are the sons of Ham
After their families, after their languages, in a list by their nations and lands.
Children were also born to Shem, ancestor of each one of the descendants of Eber,
And also Japheth’s older brother. The sons of Shem began with Elam and with Asshur,
Then came Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. And Aram had four sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah had Eber (from whom the name “Hebrews” was snatched).
Eber had two sons, the first named Peleg (or “Splitting”), because in his day earth was split.
And the name of his brother was Joktan, and as for children, Joktan had quite a bit:
Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, and Obal,
Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab– Joktan had fathered them all.
All these, Joktan’s sons, had settlements from Mesha to the hills near Sephar in the east.
These are the sons of Shem, by their clan and by tongue, by their land, and by nation not least.
All of these are the groupings of Noah’s descendants, by origin, by nation, by blood,
And from these descendants the nations were divided upon the earth after the Flood.