1 Chronicles 1:1–26

Generations from Adam to Abraham

^1aAdam, Seth, Enosh,

²Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

³Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

⁴Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

^5aThe sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

⁶The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, ¹Diphath, and Togarmah.

⁷The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and ¹Rodanim.

⁸The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

⁹The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raama were Sheba and Dedan.

¹⁰Cush ¹was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.

^11aMizraim was the father of the people of ¹Lud, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,

¹²Pathrus, Casluh (from which came the ¹Philistines), and Caphtor.

¹³Canaan was the father of Sidon, his firstborn, Heth,

¹⁴and the ^1aJebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

¹⁵the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

¹⁶the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

^17aThe sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and ¹Meshech.

¹⁸Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

¹⁹Two sons were born to Eber, the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

²⁰Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

²¹Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

²²¹Ebal, Abimael, Sheba,

²³Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

^24aShem, Arpachshad, Shelah,

²⁵Eber, Peleg, Reu,

²⁶Serug, Nahor, Terah,