Nimrod the Great

¹ These are the records of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They had sons after the flood.

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

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

⁴ The sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

⁵ By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

⁶ The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

⁷ The sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah.

The sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

⁸ Cush begat Nimrod [Gilgamesh]: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

⁹ He was a mighty hunter in the eyes of Anu.

¹⁰ The beginning of his kingdom was:

• Babel [Babylon]
• Erech [Uruk]
• Accad [Akkad]
• Calneh [Nippur], in the land of Sumer.

¹¹ Out of that land went forth:

• Asshur
• Nineveh
• city Rehoboth
• Calah
• ¹² Resen between Nineveh and Calah, also a great city.

¹³ Mizraim begat:

• Ludim
• Anamim
• Lehabim
• Naphtuhim
• ¹⁴ Pathrusim
• Casluhim (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

¹⁵ Canaan begat:

• Sidon his firstborn
• Heth
• ¹⁶ the Jebusite
• the Amorite
• the Girgasite
• ¹⁷ the Hivite
• the Arkite
• the Sinite
• ¹⁸ the Arvadite
• the Zemarite
• the Hamathite

Afterwards, the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

¹⁹ The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you comest to Gerar, unto Gaza.

As you goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

²⁰ These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, [and] in their nations.

²¹ Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were [children] born.

²² The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

²³ And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

²⁴ And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

²⁵ And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one [was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name [was] Joktan.

²⁶ And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazar-maveth, and Jerah, ²⁷ And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, ²⁸ And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, ²⁹ And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were] the sons of Joktan.

³⁰ And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you goest unto Sephar a mount of the east. ³¹ These [are] the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

³² These [are] the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.