Genesis 10:6–20

The 30 Descendants of Ham—1 Chronicles 1:8–16

⁶Ham’s descendants were 

Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 

⁷Cush’s descendants were 

Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. 

Raamah’s descendants were 

Sheba and Dedan. 

⁸Cush was the father of Nimrod, the first mighty warrior on the earth. ⁹He was a mighty hunter whom the Lord blessed. That’s why people used to say, “⸤He’s⸥ like Nimrod, a mighty hunter whom the Lord blessed.” ¹⁰The first ⸤cities⸥ in his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in Shinar ^[Babylonia^[. ¹¹He went from that land to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, ¹²and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah. 

¹³Egypt was the ancestor of 

the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, ¹⁴Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites. 

¹⁵Canaan was the father of 

Sidon his firstborn, then Heth, ¹⁶also the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, ¹⁷the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, ¹⁸the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. 

Later the Canaanite families scattered. ¹⁹The border of the Canaanites extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha. 

²⁰These were Ham’s descendants by families and languages within their countries and nations.