Genesis 10 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Nations Descended from Noah

Nations That Descended from Noah

(1 Chr. 1:5–27 )

Gen 10:1Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.

Gen 10:2

Gen 10:2The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Gen 10:3

Gen 10:3The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath,[fn] and Togarmah.

Gen 10:4

Gen 10:4The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.[fn]

Gen 10:5

Gen 10:5From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

Gen 10:6

Gen 10:6The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put,[fn] and Canaan.

Gen 10:7

Gen 10:7The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

Gen 10:8

Gen 10:8Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.

Gen 10:9

Gen 10:9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.”

Gen 10:10

Gen 10:10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Gen 10:11

Gen 10:11From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

Gen 10:12

Gen 10:12and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (that is the principal city).

Gen 10:13

Gen 10:13Mizraim begot Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

Gen 10:14

Gen 10:14Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim).

Gen 10:15

Gen 10:15Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth;

Gen 10:16

Gen 10:16the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite;

Gen 10:17

Gen 10:17the Hivite, the Arkite, and the Sinite;

Gen 10:18

Gen 10:18the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed.

Gen 10:19

Gen 10:19And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Gen 10:20

Gen 10:20These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations.

Gen 10:21

Gen 10:21And children were born also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.

Gen 10:22

Gen 10:22The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

Gen 10:23

Gen 10:23The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.[fn]

Gen 10:24

Gen 10:24Arphaxad begot Salah,[fn] and Salah begot Eber.

Gen 10:25

Gen 10:25To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Gen 10:26

Gen 10:26Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

Gen 10:27

Gen 10:27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

Gen 10:28

Gen 10:28Obal,[fn] Abimael, Sheba,

Gen 10:29

Gen 10:29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

Gen 10:30

Gen 10:30And their dwelling place was from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

Gen 10:31

Gen 10:31These were the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations.

Gen 10:32

Gen 10:32These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.

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NKJV Footnotes

(10:3)

Spelled Diphath in 1 Chronicles 1:6

(10:4)

Spelled Rodanim in Samaritan Pentateuch and 1 Chronicles 1:7

(10:6)

Or Phut

(10:23)

Called Meshech in Septuagint and 1 Chronicles 1:17

(10:24)

Following Masoretic Text, Vulgate, and Targum; Septuagint reads Arphaxad begot Cainan, and Cainan begot Salah (compare Luke 3:35, 36).

(10:28)

Spelled Ebal in 1 Chronicles 1:22

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