Noah

===Table of nations===
{{See also|Generations of Noah}}
[[File:Noahsworld map.jpg|thumb|upright|The dispersion of the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth (map from the 1854 ''Historical Textbook and Atlas of Biblical Geography'')]]

Genesis 10<ref>{{Bibleverse||Genesis|10|HE}}</ref> sets forth the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from whom the nations branched out over the Earth after the flood. Among Japheth's descendants were the maritime nations (10:2–5). Ham's son [[Biblical Cush|Cush]] had a son named [[Nimrod]], who became the first man of might on earth, a mighty hunter, king in [[Babylon]] and the land of [[Shinar]] (10:6–10). From there [[Ashur (Bible)|Ashur]] went and built [[Nineveh]]. (10:11–12) Canaan's descendants{{snd}} Sidon, [[Biblical Hittites|Heth]], the [[Jebusite]]s, the [[Amorite]]s, the Girgashites, the [[Hivites]], the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites{{snd}} spread out from [[Sidon]] as far as [[Gerar]], near [[Gaza City|Gaza]], and as far as [[Sodom and Gomorrah]] (10:15–19). Among Shem's descendants was [[Eber]] (10:21).

These genealogies differ structurally from those set out in Genesis 5 and 11. It has a segmented or treelike structure, going from one father to many offspring. It is strange that the table, which assumes that the population is distributed about the Earth, precedes the account of the [[Tower of Babel]], which says that all the population is in one place before it is dispersed.<ref>{{citation |last=Bandstra |first=B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vRY9mTUZKJcC&q=%22table+of+nations%22+noah&pg=PA67 |title=Reading the Old Testament: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible |publisher= Cengage Learning |year=2008 |pages= 67–68|isbn=978-0495391050 }}</ref>
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