1And Peleg the son of Eber died in those days, in the forty-eighth year of

2And when the Lord had scattered the sons of men on account of their sin at

3And all the families became each according to its language, its land, or

4And the sons of men built many cities according to their families, in all

5And some of them built cities in places from which they were afterward

6And the sons of Japheth the son of Noah went and built themselves cities in

7And these are the sons of Japheth according to their families, Gomer,

8And the children of Gomer, according to their cities, were the Francum, who

9And the children of Rephath are the Bartonim, who dwell in the land of

10And the children of Tugarma are ten families, and these are their names:

11And they called their cities after their own names, those are they who

12But the families of Angoli, Balgar and Parzunac, they dwell by the great

13And the children of Javan are the Javanim who dwell in the land of

14And the children of Meshech are the Shibashni and the children of Tiras

15And the children of Elishah are the Almanim, and they also went and built

16And the children of Chittim are the Romim who dwell in the valley of

17And the children of Dudonim are those who dwell in the cities of the sea

18These are the families of the children of Japheth according to their

19And the children of Ham were Cush, Mitzraim, Phut and Canaan according to

20All these went and built themselves cities as they found fit places for

21And the children of Mitzraim are the Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuchim,

22All these dwell by the river Sihor, that is the brook of Egypt, and they

23And the children of Pathros and Casloch intermarried together, and from

24And the children of Canaan also built themselves cities, and they called

25And four men from the family of Ham went to the land of the plain; these

26And these men built themselves four cities in the land of the plain, and

27And they and their children and all belonging to them dwelt in those

28And Seir the son of Hur, son of Hivi, son of Canaan, went and found a

29These are the families of the children of Ham, according to their

30And some of the children of Shem son of Noah, father of all the children

31And the sons of Shem were Elam, Ashur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram, and they

32And Ashur son of Shem and his children and household went forth at that

33And these are the names of the cities which the children of Ashur built,

34And the children of Aram also went and built themselves a city, and they

35And in the second year after the tower a man from the house of Ashur,

36And the man rose up and built there a small city, and called its name

37And these are the families of the children of Shem according to their

38And every kingdom, city, and family of the families of the children of

39And they established governments in all their cities, in order to be

Chapter 10

The Descendants of Noah, Scattered over the whole earth, build