Genesis 10:6–8

10:6 The sons of Ham were Cush,20 Mizraim,21 Put,22 and Canaan.23 10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba,24 Havilah,25 Sabtah,26 Raamah,27 and Sabteca.28 The sons of Raamah were Sheba29 and Dedan.30

10:8 Cush was the father of31 Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.

20	sn The descendants of Cush settled in Nubia (Ethiopia).
21	sn The descendants of Mizraim settled in Upper and Lower Egypt.
22	sn The descendants of Put settled in Libya.
23	sn The descendants of Canaan lived in the region of Phoenicia (Palestine).
24	sn The descendants of Seba settled in Upper Egypt along the Nile.
25	sn The Hebrew name Havilah apparently means “stretch of sand” (see HALOT 297 s.v. חֲוִילָה). Havilah’s descendants settled in eastern Arabia.
26	sn The descendants of Sabtah settled near the western shore of the Persian Gulf in ancient Hadhramaut.
27	sn The descendants of Raamah settled in southwest Arabia.
28	sn The descendants of Sabteca settled in Samudake, east toward the Persian Gulf.
29	sn Sheba became the name of a kingdom in southwest Arabia.
30	sn The name Dedan is associated with Ula in northern Arabia.
31	tn Heb “fathered.” Embedded within Cush’s genealogy is an account of Nimrod, a mighty warrior. There have been many attempts to identify him, but none are convincing.