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This is the record of {the names of} Noah's sons Shem, Ham and Japheth, and the descendants whom they had after the flood.2 Japheth's sons were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.
3 Gomer's sons were Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
4 Javan's sons were Elishah and Tarshish, {and he was the ancestor of} the Kittites and the Dodanites.
5 From Japheth's descendants came the people groups who lived {in regions} near the {Mediterranean} Sea. They spread out into their own territories, and each {group} spoke its own language. They each had their own families, which {grew and} became their own people groups."
6 Ham's sons were Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan.
7 Cush's sons were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtecah. And Raamah's sons were Sheba and Dedan. 8 Cush {also} had {a son named} Nimrod, who was the first {person} to be a powerful {ruler} on the earth. 9 He was {also} a great hunter whom Yahweh blessed. That's why people say {about other great men}, "{That man is} like Nimrod, a great hunter whom Yahweh blessed.” 10 Nimrod started ruling as king {over} {the cities of} Babel, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, {which were} {all} {located} in the region of Shinar. 11 From there he went to {the region of} Assyria where he built {the cities of} Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah 12 and Resen, {which is located} between {the cities of} Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
13 Mizraim was the ancestor of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, 14 Pathrusites, Casluhites and Caphtorites. The Philistines descended from the Casluhites.
15 Canaan had Sidon {who was} his firstborn {son}. {He was} also {the ancestor of} the Hittites, 16 Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, 17 Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, 18 Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later those families {that descended} from Canaan spread out, 19 so that the territory where the Canaanites lived reached from {the city of} Sidon {in the north} all the way {south} toward {the city of} Gerar to {the city of} Gaza, then as far {east} as {the cities of} Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, all the way to {the city of} Lasha.
20 Those {people} are Ham's descendants and each one had his own family. Each family {grew and} became its own people group that spoke its own language and lived in its own territory.
21 Shem also had {some} sons. He was the ancestor of all the descendants of Eber, and his older brother was Japheth. 22 Shem's sons were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram.
23 Aram's sons were Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash.
24 Arpachshad had {a son named} Shelah, then Shelah had {a son named} Eber. 25 Then Eber had two sons: the name of the first was Peleg {which means "division"}, because during his lifetime {the people on} the earth divided {into separate groups} {and spread out everywhere}. Peleg's {younger} brother's name was Joktan. 26 Joktan had {sons named} Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. Those were all Joktan's sons. 30 The region where they {and their descendants} lived reached from {the city of} Mesha {in the west} all the way to {the city of} Sephar {and} the hill country in the east.
31 Those {people} are Shem's descendants and each one had his own family. Each family {grew and} became its own people group that spoke its own language and lived in its own territory.
32 {All} those family groups descended from Noah's sons. Each family group had its own descendants and became its own people group. In fact, after the flood {all} the people groups on the earth descended from them and spread out everywhere.