Genesis 10:1–11:9

The 14 Descendants of Japheth—1 Chronicles 1:4–7

¹This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their descendants. Shem, Ham and Japheth had children after the flood. 

²Japheth’s descendants were 

Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 

³Gomer’s descendants were 

Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 

⁴Javan’s descendants were 

the people from Elishah, Tarshish, Cyprus, and Rhodes.^a

⁵From these descendants the people of the coastlands spread into their own countries. Each nation had its own language and families. 

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. 

The 26 Descendants of Shem—1 Chronicles 1:17–23

²¹Shem, Japheth’s older brother, also had children. ⸤Shem was⸥ the ancestor of all the sons of Eber. 

²²Shem’s descendants were 

Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. 

²³Aram’s descendants were 

Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 

²⁴Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, 

and Shelah was the father of Eber. 

²⁵Two sons were born to Eber. 

The name of the one was Peleg ^[Division^[, because in his day the earth was divided. 

His brother’s name was Joktan. 

²⁶Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²⁷Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ²⁸Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ²⁹Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. These were Joktan’s sons. ³⁰The region where they lived extended from Mesha toward Sephar in the eastern mountains. 

³¹These were Shem’s descendants by families and languages within their countries according to their nations. 

³²These were the families of Noah’s sons listed by their genealogies, nation by nation. From these ⸤descendants⸥ the nations spread over the earth after the flood. 

11TH CHAPTER

The Tower of Babel

¹The whole world had one language with a common vocabulary. ²As people moved toward the east,^athey found a plain in Shinar ^[Babylonia^[ and settled there. 

³They said to one another, “Let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used bricks as stones and tar^bas mortar. 

⁴Then they said, “Let’s build a city for ourselves and a tower with its top in the sky. Let’s make a name for ourselves so that we won’t become scattered all over the face of the earth.” 

⁵The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the descendants of Adam were building. ⁶The Lord said, “They are one people with one language. This is only the beginning of what they will do! Now nothing they plan to do will be too difficult for them. ⁷Let us go down there and mix up their language so that they won’t understand each other.” 

⁸So the Lord scattered them all over the face of the earth, and they stopped building the city. ⁹This is why it was named Babel, because there the Lord turned the language of the whole earth into babble. From that place the Lord scattered them all over the face of the earth.