⁶And the sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. ⁷And the sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. ⁸And Cush fathered Nimrod. He was the first on earth to be a mighty warrior.^c ⁹He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it was said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahweh.” ¹⁰Now,^d the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. ¹¹From that land he went out to Assyria, and he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, ¹²Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. ¹³And Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, ¹⁴Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim.

¹⁵Canaan fathered Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth, ¹⁶and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, ¹⁷the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, ¹⁸the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad. ¹⁹And the territory of the Canaanites was from Sidon in the direction of^e Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of^f Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. ²⁰These are the descendants^g of Ham, according to their families and their languages, in their lands, and in their nations.

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Footnotes

cLiterally “He began to be a mighty warrior on the earth”
dOr “And”
eLiterally “in your going”
fLiterally “in your going”
gOr “sons” (“descendants” was chosen since the proper names in this section are gentilic in form—that is, they indicate one’s place of origin—and have the definite article)