Genesis 10 — BBP

The story about Noah's family

10Verse 1This story is about Shem, Ham and Jay-feth, the sons of Noah. It is a list of the children that were born after the flood.

The tribes that came from Jay-feth

^{Verse 2}Jay-feth's sons were named Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Me-shek and Tiras.^{Verse 3}Gomer's sons were named Ash-ken-az, Rif-ath and Togar-mah.^{Verse 4}Javan's sons were named Elishah, Tar-shish, Kittim and Rod-anim.^{Verse 5}All of the people that came from Jay-feth had families and they ended up being different tribes. Every tribe had their own language and their own country. Some of these tribes lived in country next to the Mediterranean Sea.

The tribes that came from Ham

^{Verse 6}Ham's sons were Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.^{Verse 7}Cush's sons were named Seba, Havi-lah, Sab-tah, Rarmah and Sab-teca. And the sons of Rarmah were named Sheba and Dedan.^{Verse 8}One of Cush's sons was named Nimrod. When Nimrod grew up he was a strong fighter, and with God's help he became a really good hunter. Whenever people talked about good hunters, they said things like, “That man is a really good hunter like Nimrod.”^{Verse 10}Later on, Nimrod was the boss of all the towns called Bab-y-lon, Erech, Accad and Cal-nar. All these towns were in a country called Shinah, which is another name for Bab-y-lonia.^{Verse 11}From there Nimrod went to another country called Assyria and he built the towns called Nineva, Re-ho-both Ir, Calah, and a big town called Resen. Resen was between Nineva and Calah.

A list of Ham's sons

^{Verse 13}Ham had a son named Egypt. This is a list of Egypt's sons. Lud, Anam, Lehab, Naf-tuh, Path-rus, Cas-luh and Caf-tor. All these sons had families and their families grew so big they were called tribes. The Filistine nation came from the Cas-luh tribe.^{Verse 15}Ham's other son, Canaan, named his first son Sidon. These are the names of Canaan's other sons, Heth, Jebus, Amor, Girgash, Hiv, Arrk, Sinn, Arvad, Zemar, and Hamath. All these sons had families and their families grew so big they were called tribes. Later on, the tribes that came from Canaan split up and went to different places.^{Verse 19}The tribes that came from Canaan were called Canaanites. Those tribes lived in country that went as far north as a town called Sidon and as far south as the town of Gaza, and as far east as the towns called Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboy-im and Lasha.^{Verse 20}Yes, all these people were part of Ham's family. All the sons had their own tribes, languages and their own country.

The tribes that came from Shem

^{Verse 21}Shem was Jay-feth's older brother and Eber's family were part of Shem's family.^{Verse 22}You see, Shem's sons were Elam, Ashur, Ar-faxad, Lud, and Aram.^{Verse 23}Aram's sons were named Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.^{Verse 24}Ar-faxad's son was named Shelah, and he had a son named Eber.^{Verse 25}Eber had 2 sons. The first son was Peleg and his younger brother was Joktan. The name Peleg means split up. You see, Peleg was still alive when all the people split up into different tribes and went all over the world.^{Verse 26}Joktan was the father of Almo-dad, Shelef, Hazarm-aveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimale, Sheba, Ofir, Havi-lah, and Jobab. All of these people came from Joktan, and lived in the east hill country that goes from a place called Mesha all the way to another place called Seffar.^{Verse 31}All these people came from Shem. They were all different tribes and had their own country and their own language.^{Verse 32}And so this is a list of all the families and tribes that came from Noah. They split up into their own nations and spread out all over the earth after the big flood.