GENESIS
Chapter 10

Generations of the sons of Noah

10:1 Now these [are] the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth and to them were sons born after the flood.
10:2 The sons of Japheth ; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
10:3 And the sons of Gomer ; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
10:4 And the sons of Javan ; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands ; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
10:6 And the sons of Ham ; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
10:7 And the sons of Cush ; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha and the sons of Raamah ; Sheba, and Dedan.

Nimrod first monarch

10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the Yehovah wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Yehovah.
10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah the same [is] a great city.
10:13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
10:14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim,(out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
10:16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
10:17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
10:18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
10:19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you come to Gerar, to Gaza ; as you go, to Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even to Lasha.
10:20 These [are] the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, [and] in their nations.
10:21 to Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were [children] born.
10:22 The children of Shem ; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
10:23 And the children of Aram ; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
10:24 And Arphaxad begat Salah ; and Salah begat Eber.
10:25 And to Eber were born two sons the name of one [was] Peleg ; for in his days was the earth divided ; and his brother's name [was] Joktan.
10:26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
10:27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
10:28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
10:29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab all these [were] the sons of Joktan.
10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go to Sephar a mount of the east.
10:31 These [are] the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
10:32 These [are] the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

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