These are the lines of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah: sons were born to them after the Flood.
The descendants of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
The descendants of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
The descendants of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim.aDodanim Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1.7 “Rodanim.”
From these the maritime nations branched out. [These are the descendants of Japheth]b[These are the descendants of Japheth] Cf. vv. 20 and 31. by their lands—each with its language—their clans and their nations.
The descendants of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
The descendants of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Cush also begot Nimrod, who was the first of the earth’s heroes.
He was a mighty hunter by the grace of GOD; hence the saying, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter by the grace of GOD.”
The mainstays of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calnehcand Calneh Heb. we-khalneh, better vocalized we-khullanah “all of them being.” in the land of Shinar.
From that land Asshur went forth and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
and Resen between Nineveh and Calah, that is the great city.
And Mizraim begot the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, the Naphtuhim,
the Pathrusim, the Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorim.dCasluhim…Philistines…Caphtorim Cf. Jer. 47.4, Amos 9.7.
Canaan begot Sidon, his first-born, and Heth;
and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites spread out.
(The [original] Canaanite territory extended from Sidon as far as Gerar, near Gaza, and as far as Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, near Lasha.)
These are the descendants of Ham, according to their clans and languages, by their lands and nations.
Sons were also born to Shem, ancestor of all the descendants of Eber and older brother of Japheth.
The descendants of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
The descendants of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
Arpachshad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber.
Two sons were born to Eber: the name of the first was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided;edivided Heb. niphlegah, play on “Peleg.” and the name of his brother was Joktan.
Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the descendants of Joktan.
Their settlements extended from Mesha as far as Sephar, the hill country to the east.
These are the descendants of Shem according to their clans and languages, by their lands, according to their nations.
These are the groupings of Noah’s descendants, according to their origins, by their nations; and from these the nations branched out over the earth after the Flood.