Genesis 10:1–11

The Generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth

¹Now these are the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.

^2aThe sons of Japheth were ^bGomer and Magog and ^cMadai and ^dJavan and Tubal and ^eMeshech and Tiras.

³The sons of Gomer were ^aAshkenaz and ¹Riphath and ^bTogarmah.

⁴The sons of Javan were Elishah and ^aTarshish, Kittim and ¹Dodanim.

⁵From these the coastlands of the nations ¹were separated into their lands, every one according to his tongue, according to their families, into their nations.

^6aThe sons of Ham were Cush and ¹Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

⁷The sons of Cush were ^aSeba and Havilah and Sabtah and ^bRaamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were ^cSheba and ^dDedan.

⁸Now Cush ¹was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.

⁹He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahweh.”

¹⁰The beginning of his kingdom was ^1aBabel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of ^bShinar.

¹¹From that land he went out ^ato Assyria and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,