Genesis 10

10TH CHAPTER

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.