Genesis 10 — BBE
10Verse 1Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of watersVerse 2The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.Verse 3And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.Verse 4And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim.Verse 5From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.Verse 6And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.Verse 7And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.Verse 8And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.Verse 9He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.Verse 10And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.Verse 11From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,Verse 12And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great town.Verse 13And Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim;Verse 14And Pathrusim and Casluhim and Caphtorim, from whom came the Philistines.Verse 15And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,Verse 16And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,Verse 17And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,Verse 18And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions;Verse 19Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.Verse 20All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.Verse 21And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.Verse 22These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.Verse 23And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.Verse 24And Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.Verse 25And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.Verse 26And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and JerahVerse 27And Hadoram and Uzal and DiklahVerse 28And Obal and Abimael and ShebaVerse 29And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.Verse 30And their country was from Mesha, in the direction of Sephar, the mountain of the east.Verse 31These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.Verse 32These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.