3. The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4. The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5. From these the coastland peoples spread. [These are the sons of Japheth] in their lands, each with his own language, by their families within their nations.
6. The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt [Mizraim], Put, and Canaan.
7. The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
8. Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first to be a mighty man on the earth.
9. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.
10. The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [in Babylonia].
11. Out of the land he [Nimrod] went forth into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
12. And Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; all these [suburbs combined to form] the great city.
13. And Egypt [Mizraim] became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
14. Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.
15. Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth [the Hittites],
16. The Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
17. The Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
18. The Arvadites, the Zemarites and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites spread abroad