Noah's family tree
1This is the family tree of Noah—his relatives born after the flood, and descended from his three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth.Japheth’s family tree
2Japheth’s descendants: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3Gomer’s descendants: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4Javan’s descendants: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 5Japheth’s descendants settled along the Mediterranean coast. They had their own tribes, nations, and language.Ham's family tree
6Ham’s descendants: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 7Cush’s descendants: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah’s descendants: Sheba and Dedan.8Another famous descendant of Cush was the world’s first heroic warrior, Nimrod. 9People also thought of Nimrod as the world’s greatest hunter. They even used his name to compliment other hunters: “You’re a Nimrod.” Translation: “You’re a mighty hunter.” 10He built his nation in Babylonia. [1] Major cities: Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh. 11He expanded his nation into Assyria. [2] Major cities: Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah, 12and the famous city of Resen, located between Nineveh and Calah.
13Mizraim’s descendants: Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim, [3] ancestor of the Philistines.
15Canaan’s descendants: Sidon, Heth, 16along with the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Canaan’s families scattered. 19The Canaanite homeland stretched from Sidon in the north. [4] That’s in the direction of Gerar. It extended as far south as Gaza. That’s in the general direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Lasha. 20These were the descendants of Ham. They lived as extended families in their own tribes and among their own nations. They spoke their own languages.
Shem’s family tree
21Shem also had many descendants. He was Noah’s oldest son, the older brother of Japheth, and the ancestor of all the descendants of Eber. 22Shem’s descendants: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. 23Aram’s descendants: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24Arphaxad’s descendants: Shelah, who was the father of Eber.25Eber’s descendants: Peleg and Joktan. Peleg is Hebrew for “divided.” He got that name because he lived at a time when tribes were divided into different nations. 26Joktan’s descendants: Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All of these people descended from Joktan.
30Joktan’s family of tribes lived in the land that stretched from Mesha to Sephar in the eastern mountains. [5] 31These were the descendants of Shem. They lived as extended families in their own tribes and among their own nations. They spoke their own languages. 32These are the descendants of Noah, by tribe and nation. Every nation on earth descended from them after the flood.
