4. The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5. From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.
6. The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
7. The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
8. Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.
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.
11. From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and
12. Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
13. Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
14. Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim.
15. Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,
16. and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,