Nov. 11, 2025

Nations Descended from Noah

Gen 10:1  Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. 

Gen 10:2  The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 

Gen 10:3  The sons of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 

Gen 10:4  The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 

Gen 10:5  Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations. 

Gen 10:6  The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 

Gen 10:7  The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan. 

Gen 10:8  Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth. 

Gen 10:9  He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”. 

Gen 10:10  The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 

Gen 10:11  Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, 

Gen 10:12  and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah. 

Gen 10:13  Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 

Gen 10:14  Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim. 

Gen 10:15  Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth, 

Gen 10:16  the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 

Gen 10:17  the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 

Gen 10:18  the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad. 

Gen 10:19  The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon—as you go toward Gerar—to Gaza—as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim—to Lasha. 

Gen 10:20  These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations. 

Gen 10:21  Children were also born to Shem (the elder brother of Japheth), the father of all the children of Eber . 

Gen 10:22  The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. 

Gen 10:23  The sons of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 

Gen 10:24  Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber. 

Gen 10:25  To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan. 

Gen 10:26  Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 

Gen 10:27  Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 

Gen 10:28  Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 

Gen 10:29  Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. 

Gen 10:30  Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. 

Gen 10:31  These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations. 

Gen 10:32  These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.