Genesis 10:5-20

5Their descendants became the seafaring peoples that spread out to various lands, each identified by its own language, clan, and national identity.

6The descendants of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

7The descendants of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

8Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, who was the first heroic warrior on earth.

9Since he was the greatest hunter in the world, his name became proverbial. People would say, “This man is like Nimrod, the greatest hunter in the world.”

10He built his kingdom in the land of Babylonia, with the cities of Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh.

11From there he expanded his territory to Assyria, building the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,

12and Resen (the great city located between Nineveh and Calah).

13Mizraim was the ancestor of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,

14Pathrusites, Casluhites, and the Caphtorites, from whom the Philistines came.

15Canaan’s oldest son was Sidon, the ancestor of the Sidonians. Canaan was also the ancestor of the Hittites,

16Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,

17Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,

18Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. The Canaanite clans eventually spread out,

19and the territory of Canaan extended from Sidon in the north to Gerar and Gaza in the south, and east as far as Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, near Lasha.

20These were the descendants of Ham, identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity.