The Tanakh · JPS 1917 Translation

Genesis 10

Jewish Publication Society 1917 · Torah

Genesis chapter 10 — part of the Torah in the Jewish Bible. In the classic JPS 1917 translation it opens: “Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood.” — the complete text of all 32 verses is below, free to read online.

1Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood.

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

3And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

4And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

5Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

6And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

7And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.

8And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

9He was a mighty hunter before HaShem; wherefore it is said: 'Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before HaShem.'

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

11Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

12and Resen between Nineveh and Calah--the same is the great city.

13And Mizraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

14and Pathrusim, and Casluhim--whence went forth the Philistines--and Caphtorim.

15And Canaan begot Zidon his firstborn, and Heth;

16and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite;

17and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite;

18and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.

19And the border of the Canaanite was from Zidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha.

20These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.

21And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.

22The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.

23And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

24And Arpachshad begot Shelah; and Shelah begot Eber.

25And unto Eber were born two sons; the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

26And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah;

27and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah;

28and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba;

29and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

30And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, unto the mountain of the east.

31These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

32These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations; and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

32 verses · JPS 1917 (public domain)

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