Genesis 10:6

10:6 The sons of Ham were Cush, ¹  Mizraim, ²  Put, ³  and Canaan. ⁴ 

Genesis 2:13

2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through ⁵  the entire land of Cush. ⁶ 

Genesis 10:7

10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba, ⁷  Havilah, ⁸  Sabtah, ⁹  Raamah, ¹⁰  and Sabteca. ¹¹  The sons of Raamah were Sheba ¹²  and Dedan. ¹³ 

[10:6]  ¹ sn The descendants of Cush settled in Nubia (Ethiopia).

[10:6]  ² sn The descendants of Mizraim settled in Upper and Lower Egypt.

[10:6]  ³ sn The descendants of Put settled in Libya.

[10:6]  ⁴ sn The descendants of Canaan lived in the region of Phoenicia (Palestine).

[2:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

[2:13]  ⁶ sn Cush. In the Bible the Hebrew word כּוּשׁ (kush, “Kush”) often refers to Ethiopia (so KJV, CEV), but here it must refer to a region in Mesopotamia, the area of the later Cassite dynasty of Babylon. See Gen 10:8 as well as E. A. Speiser, Genesis (AB), 20.

[10:7]  ⁹ sn The descendants of Seba settled in Upper Egypt along the Nile.

[10:7]  ¹⁰ sn The Hebrew name Havilah apparently means “stretch of sand” (see HALOT 297 s.v. חֲוִילָה). Havilah’s descendants settled in eastern Arabia.

[10:7]  ¹¹ sn The descendants of Sabtah settled near the western shore of the Persian Gulf in ancient Hadhramaut.

[10:7]  ¹² sn The descendants of Raamah settled in southwest Arabia.

[10:7]  ¹³ sn The descendants of Sabteca settled in Samudake, east toward the Persian Gulf.

[10:7]  ¹⁴ sn Sheba became the name of a kingdom in southwest Arabia.

[10:7]  ¹⁵ sn The name Dedan is associated with àUla in northern Arabia.