Genesis 10:5-20

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

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.