Genesis - Chapter 10 | American Standard Version

  • 1. Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, {cf15i namely}, of Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
  • 2. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
  • 3. And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
  • 4. And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
  • 5. Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
  • 6. And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.
  • 7. And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
  • 8. And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
  • 9. He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah: wherefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah.
  • 10. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  • 11. Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,
  • 12. and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).
  • 13. And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
  • 14. and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (whence went forth the Philistines), and Caphtorim.
  • 15. And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
  • 16. and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
  • 17. and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
  • 18. and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.
  • 19. And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha.
  • 20. These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
  • 21. And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.
  • 22. The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.
  • 23. And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
  • 24. And Arpachshad begat Shelah; and Shelah begat Eber.
  • 25. And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg. For in his days was the earth divided. And his brother's name was Joktan.
  • 26. And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
  • 27. and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
  • 28. and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
  • 29. and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
  • 30. And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
  • 31. These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
  • 32. These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
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