8. Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first powerful man on earth.
9. He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord. That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord.”
10. His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11. From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
12. and Resen, between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
13. Mizraim fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
14. Pathrusim, Casluhim (the Philistines came from them), and Caphtorim.
15. Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, then Heth,
16. the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
17. the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
18. the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the Canaanite clans scattered.