⁹ When Enosh was ninety years old, he begot Kenan. ¹⁰ Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after he begot Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters. ¹¹ The whole lifetime of Enosh was nine hundred and five years; then he died.

¹² When Kenan was seventy years old, he begot Mahalalel. ¹³ Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years after he begot Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters. ¹⁴ The whole lifetime of Kenan was nine hundred and ten years; then he died.

¹⁵ When Mahalalel was sixty-five years old, he begot Jared. ¹⁶ Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after he begot Jared, and he had other sons and daughters. ¹⁷ The whole lifetime of Mahalalel was eight hundred and ninety-five years; then he died.

¹⁸ When Jared was one hundred and sixty-two years old, he begot Enoch. ¹⁹ Jared lived eight hundred years after he begot Enoch, and he had other sons and daughters. ²⁰ The whole lifetime of Jared was nine hundred and sixty-two years; then he died.

²¹ When Enoch was sixty-five years old, he begot Methuselah. ²² Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah for three hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters. ²³ The whole lifetime of Enoch was three hundred and sixty-five years. ²⁴ Enoch walked with God,^[a] and he was no longer here, for God took him.^(A)

²⁵ When Methuselah was one hundred and eighty-seven years old, he begot Lamech. ²⁶ Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he begot Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters. ²⁷ The whole lifetime of Methuselah was nine hundred and sixty-nine years; then he died.

²⁸ When Lamech was one hundred and eighty-two years old, he begot a son ^29 (B)and named him Noah, saying, “This one shall bring us relief from our work and the toil of our hands, out of the very ground that the Lord has put under a curse.”^{[b] 30} Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after he begot Noah, and he had other sons and daughters. ³¹ The whole lifetime of Lamech was seven hundred and seventy-seven years; then he died.

³² When Noah was five hundred years old, he begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.^[c](C)

^2 (A)The descendants of Japheth: Gomer,^[a] Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.^{(B) 3} The descendants of Gomer: Ashkenaz,^[b] Diphath and Togarmah. ⁴ The descendants of Javan: Elishah,^[c] Tarshish, the Kittim and the Rodanim. ⁵ From these branched out the maritime nations.

These are the descendants of Japheth by their lands, each with its own language, according to their clans, by their nations.

⁶ The descendants of Ham: Cush,^[d] Mizraim, Put and Canaan. ⁷ The descendants of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

⁸ Cush^[e] became the father of Nimrod, who was the first to become a mighty warrior on earth. ⁹ He was a mighty hunter in the eyes of the Lord; hence the saying, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter in the eyes of the Lord.” ¹⁰ His kingdom originated in Babylon, Erech and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.^{[f] 11} From that land he went forth to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir^[g] and Calah, ¹² as well as Resen, between Nineveh and Calah,^[h] the latter being the principal city.

^13 (C)Mizraim became the father of the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, the Naphtuhim, ¹⁴ the Pathrusim,^[i] the Casluhim, and the Caphtorim from whom the Philistines came.

¹⁵ Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and of Heth;^{[j] 16} also of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, ¹⁷ the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, ¹⁸ the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward, the clans of the Canaanites spread out, ¹⁹ so that the Canaanite borders extended from Sidon all the way to Gerar, near Gaza, and all the way to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, near Lasha.

²⁰ These are the descendants of Ham, according to their clans, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.

²¹ To Shem also, Japheth’s oldest brother and the ancestor of all the children of Eber,^[k] children were born. ^22 (D)The descendants of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram. ²³ The descendants of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash.

²⁴ Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber. ²⁵ To Eber two sons were born: the name of the first was Peleg, for in his time the world was divided;^[l] and the name of his brother was Joktan.

²⁶ Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ²⁹ Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were descendants of Joktan. ³⁰ Their settlements extended all the way from Mesha to Sephar, the eastern hill country.

³¹ These are the descendants of Shem, according to their clans, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.

³² These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their origins and by their nations. From these the nations of the earth branched out after the flood.