10Verse 1These are the names of Noah's descendants. His three sons were Shem, Ham and Japheth. They all had sons after the flood.Verse 2These were Japheth's sons. Their names were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.Verse 3And these were the sons of Gomer, the eldest son. Their names were Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.Verse 4And these were the sons of his younger brother, Javan. Their names were Elishah, Spain, Cyprus and Rhodes.Verse 5Later on the descendants of Elishah and his brothers spread along the coast and on the islands. So they became separate tribes, one group in one place and another group in another place. Each tribe spoke its own language. They all lived separately but they had the same ancestor Japheth.Verse 6These were the sons of Ham. He was Japheth's younger brother. Their names were Cush, Egypt, Libya and Canaan.Verse 7These were the sons of the eldest, Cush. Their names were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteca. And Raamah's two sons were called Sheba and Dedan.Verse 8Cush had another son called Nimrod. He was the first to rule over other people as well as his own family.Verse 9Yahweh helped him and so he was a very good hunter. That is why people say to each other today, “May Yahweh help you too, so that you can be a good hunter like Nimrod was long ago.”Verse 10First Nimrod ruled over three cities, Babylon, Erech and Accad. They were all in Babylonia.Verse 11Then he went from Babylonia to Assyria and there his workers built many houses. They went on and on building until there were four cities called Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, CalahVerse 12and Resen. Resen was between Nineveh and the big city Calah.Verse 13Ham's son, Egypt, had seven sons. Their names were Lydia, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,Verse 14Pathrus, Casluh and Caphtor. Caphtor, Egypt's youngest son, was the ancestor of the Philistine people. The descendants of Egypt were named after Lydia and his brothers.Verse 15Ham's son, Canaan, had two sons called Sidon and Heth. Sidon was the firstborn,Verse 16but Canaan also had other sons, so he was the ancestor of very many people. They were the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,Verse 17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,Verse 18the Arvadites, the Zemarites and the Hamathites. These people spread out, until they became separate tribes, one group in one place and another group in another place.Verse 19All their areas were called by the one name Canaan, so Canaan was a very big country. The different places in Canaan spread from Sidon down to Gerar in the south near Gaza. And they went right over to the east, as far as Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which is near Lasha.Verse 20All the tribes lived separately, one group in one place and another group in another place. And each tribe spoke its own language. They all lived separately but they had the same ancestor Ham.Verse 21Shem, Noah's first son, was the first of the Hebrew people.Verse 22These were Shem's sons. Their names were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram.Verse 23And Aram's sons were called Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.Verse 24Arpachshad's son was called Shelah, and Shelah's son was called Eber.Verse 25Eber had two sons. One of them was called Peleg, and while he was alive all the people spread out and separated. So they called him Peleg, because Peleg means “they were separated.” And his brother was Joktan.Verse 26Joktan's sons were called Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,Verse 27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,Verse 28Obal, Abimael, Sheba,Verse 29Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. They were all Joktan's sons.Verse 30The land belonging to those people went from Mesha over to Sephar in the eastern hill country.Verse 31They became separate tribes, one group in one place and another group in another place. And each tribe spoke its own language. They all lived separately but they had the same ancestor Shem.Verse 32All those many people were the descendants of Noah. They followed after Noah's sons until there were many separate nations. After the flood all those people separated into different groups all over the world.