Genesis 10
The Table of Nations
(1 Chronicles 1:4–27)
¹ This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
The Japhethites
² The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
³ The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
⁴ And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.1
⁵ From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.
The Hamites
⁶ The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
⁷ The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah,2 Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
⁸ Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one 3 on the earth.
⁹ He was a mighty hunter before 4 the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”
¹⁰ His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.5
¹¹ From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
¹² and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
¹³ Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,
¹⁴ the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.6
¹⁵ And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn,7 and of the Hittites,
¹⁶ the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
¹⁷ the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
¹⁸ the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,
¹⁹ and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
²⁰ These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
The Semites
²¹ And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth;8 Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.
²² The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
²³ The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.9
²⁴ Arphaxad was the father of Shelah,10 and Shelah was the father of Eber.
²⁵ Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg,11 because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.
²⁶ And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
²⁹ Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
³⁰ Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
³¹ These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
³² All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.
10:4 SP and some MT manuscripts (see also LXX and 1 Chronicles 1:7); most MT manuscripts Dodanites ↩︎
10:7 Sabtah is a variant of Sabta; see 1 Chronicles 1:9. ↩︎
10:8 Or who established himself as a mighty warrior or who became the first fearless leader ↩︎
10:9 Or in defiance of; twice in this verse ↩︎
10:10 That is, Babylonia ↩︎
10:14 Some translators adjust the Hebrew word order to the Casluhites, and the Caphtorites (from whom the Philistines came); see also Jeremiah 47:4 and Amos 9:7. ↩︎
10:15 Or of the Sidonians, the foremost ↩︎
10:21 Or Shem, whose older brother was Japheth ↩︎
10:23 Hebrew; LXX and 1 Chronicles 1:17 Meshech ↩︎
10:24 Hebrew; LXX (see also Luke 3:35–36) And Arphaxad was the father of Cainan, and Cainan was the father of Shelah, ↩︎
10:25 Peleg means division. ↩︎