The Hamites
The sons of Ham are named, and the line of Cush is immediately traced into its next generation. The genealogy begins by laying out the main branches of this family.
T6he sons of Ham: 7The sons of Cush:
Cush fathers Nimrod, who emerges as a mighty man and hunter before the LORD. His rule is linked to the beginning of kingdoms and to cities in Shinar and Assyria, including Babylon and Nineveh.
8Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth. 9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.” 10His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, 12and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
Mizraim’s descendants are listed in a chain of peoples, including the line from which the Philistines come. The genealogy keeps widening into recognizable nations.
13Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites, 14the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.
Canaan’s descendants are named across many peoples, and their later scattering and borders are described from Sidon toward Gaza and the cities of the plain. The family line is set within a definite land.
15And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, 16the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. 19Later the Canaanite clans were scattered, and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
Ham’s descendants are gathered up by clans, languages, lands, and nations. The list is closed as a completed family of peoples.
20These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.