10:6 The sons of Ham were Cush, 1 Mizraim, 2 Put, 3 and Canaan. 4 10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba, 5 Havilah, 6 Sabtah, 7 Raamah, 8 and Sabteca. 9 The sons of Raamah were Sheba 10 and Dedan. 11
10:8 Cush was the father of 12 Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.
1 sn The descendants of Cush settled in Nubia (Ethiopia).
2 sn The descendants of Mizraim settled in Upper and Lower Egypt.
3 sn The descendants of Put settled in Libya.
4 sn The descendants of Canaan lived in the region of Phoenicia (Palestine).
5 sn The descendants of Seba settled in Upper Egypt along the Nile.
6 sn The Hebrew name Havilah apparently means “stretch of sand” (see HALOT 297 s.v. חֲוִילָה). Havilah’s descendants settled in eastern Arabia.
7 sn The descendants of Sabtah settled near the western shore of the Persian Gulf in ancient Hadhramaut.
8 sn The descendants of Raamah settled in southwest Arabia.
9 sn The descendants of Sabteca settled in Samudake, east toward the Persian Gulf.
10 sn Sheba became the name of a kingdom in southwest Arabia.
11 sn The name Dedan is associated with àUla in northern Arabia.
12 tn Heb “fathered.” Embedded within Cush’s genealogy is an account of Nimrod, a mighty warrior. There have been many attempts to identify him, but none are convincing.