1 Adam, Shet (Seth), Enosh, 2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Yared (Jared), 3 Hanok (Enoch), Metushelah (Methuselah), Lamek, 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Yafet (Japeth).

5 Yafet’s sons were Gomer, Magog, Maday, Yavan, Tuval, Meshek, and Tiras. 6 Gomer’s sons were Ashkenaz, Rifat, and Togarmah. 7 Yavan’s sons were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

8 Ham’s sons were Kush, Mitsrayim, Put, and Kanaan. 9 Kush’s sons were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Savteka. Raamah’s sons were Sheva and Dedan. 10 Then Kush fathered Nimrod and he became a mighty warrior. 11 Mitsrayim was the ancestor of the Lud, the Anam, the Lehab, the Naftuh, 12 the Patrus, the Kasluh, and the Kaftor people groups. (The Philistines descended from the Kasluh people group.) 13 Kanaan’s first son was Tsidon, and then he was also the ancestor of the Hittites, 14 the Yevusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 15 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 16 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamatites.

17 Shem’s sons were Eylam, Ashur, Arpakshad, Lud, and Aram. Aram’s sons were: Uts, Hul, Geter, and Meshek. 18 Arpakshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber. 19 Eber had two sons: Peleg (which sounds like the Hebrew word for ‘divided’, because in his lifetime, the earth was divided)[ref] and Yoktan. 20 Yoktan was the ancestor of: Almodad, Shelef, Hatsarmavet, Yerah, 21 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 22 Eybal, Abimael, Sheva, 23 Ofir, Havilah, and Yovav. All those were the descendants of Yoktan.

24 These were the descendants of Shem (in order from him to Abraham): Arpakshad, Shelah, 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu, 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah, 27 and Abram (whose name God later changed to Abraham).