AND Peleg the son of Eber died in those days, in the forty eighth year of the life of Avram son of Terach, and all the days of Peleg were two hundred and thirty nine years.
And when Yahuah had scattered the sons of men on account of their sin at the tower, behold they spread forth into many divisions, and all the sons of men were dispersed into the four corners of the earth.
And all the families became each according to its language, its land, or its city.
And the sons of men built many cities according to their families, in all the places where they went, and throughout the earth where Yahuah had scattered them.
And some of them built cities in places from which they were afterward extirpated, and they called these cities after their own names, or the names of their children, or after their particular occurrences.
And the sons of Yapheth the son of Noach went and built themselves cities in the places where they were scattered, and they called all their cities after their names, and the sons of Yapheth were divided upon the face of the earth into many divisions and languages.
And these are the sons of Yapheth according to their families, Gimer, Magog, Madai, Yavan, Tubal, Meshek and Thiyrac; these are the children of Yapheth according to their generations.
And the children of Gimer, according to their cities, were the Francum, who dwell in the land of Franza, by the river Franza, by the river Senah.
And the children of Riyphath are the Bartonim, who dwell in the land of Bartonia by the river Ledah, which empties its waters in the great sea Giychon, that is, oceanus.
And the children of Togarmah are ten families, and these are their names: Buzar, Parzunac, Balgar, Elicanum, Ragbib, Tarki, Bid, Zevuc, Ongal and Tilmaz; all these spread and rested in the north and built themselves cities.
And they called their cities after their own names, those are they who abide by the rivers Hithlah and Italac unto this day.
But the families of Angoli, Balgar and Parzunac, they dwell by the great river Dubnee; and the names of their cities are also according to their own names.
And the children of Yavan are the Yavaniym who dwell in the land of Makedonia, and the children of Madai are the Orelum that dwell in the land of Curson, and the children of Tubal are those that dwell in the land of Tuskanah by the river Pashiah.
And the children of Meshek are the Shivnashniy and the children of Thiyrac are Rushash, Kushniy, and Ongolis; all these went and built themselves cities; those are the cities that are situate by the sea Yevuc by the river Cura, which empties itself in the river Tragan.
And the children of Eliyshah are the Almaniym, and they also went and built themselves cities; those are the cities situate between the mountains of Iyov and Shivathmo; and of them were the people of Lumbardiy who dwell opposite the mountains of Iyov and Shivathmo, and they conquered the land of Italia and remained there unto this day.
And the children of Kittiym are the Romaiym who dwell in the valley of Kanopia by the river Tibreu.
And the children of Dodaniym are those who dwell in the cities of the sea Giychon, in the land of Bordna.
These are the families of the children of Yapheth according to their cities and languages, when they were scattered after the tower, and they called their cities after their names and occurrences; and these are the names of all their cities according to their families, which they built in those days after the tower.
And the children of Cham were Kush, Mitsrayim, Put and Kena`an according to their generation and cities.
All these went and built themselves cities as they found fit places for them, and they called their cities after the names of their fathers Kush, Mitsrayim, Put and Kena`an.
And the children of Mitsrayim are the Ludiy, Anamiym, Lehaviym, Naphtuchiym, Pathruciym, Kacluchiym and Kaphtoriym, seven families.
All these dwell by the river Shiychor, that is the brook of Mitsrayim, and they built themselves cities and called them after their own names.
And the children of Pathroc and Kacluch intermarried together, and from them went forth the Pelishtiym, the Gazathiym, and the Gerariym, the Gittiym, and the Eqroniym, in all five families; these also built themselves cities, and they called their cities after the names of their fathers unto this day.
And the children of Kena`an also built themselves cities, and they called their cities after their names, eleven cities and others without number.
And four men from the family of Cham went to the land of the plain; these are the names of the four men, Cedom, Amorah, Admah and Tseviym.
And these men built themselves four cities in the land of the plain, and they called the names of their cities after their own names.
And they and their children and all belonging to them dwelt in those cities, and they were fruitful and multiplied greatly and dwelt peaceably.
And Se`iyr the son of Choriy, son of Chivviy, son of Kena`an, went and found a valley opposite to Mount Pa'ran, and he built a city there, and he and his seven sons and his household dwelt there, and he called the city which he built Se`iyr, according to his name; that is the land of Se`iyr unto this day.
These are the families of the children of Cham, according to their languages and cities, when they were scattered to their countries after the tower.
And some of the children of Shem son of Noach, father of all the children of Eber, also went and built themselves cities in the places wherein they were scattered, and they called their cities after their names.
And the sons of Shem were Eylam, Ashshur, Arpakshad, Ludiy and Aram, and they built themselves cities and called the names of all their cities after their names.
And Ashshur son of Shem and his children and household went forth at that time, a very large body of them, and they went to a distant land that they found, and they met with a very extensive valley in the land that they went to, and they built themselves four cities, and they called them after their own names and occurrences.
And these are the names of the cities which the children of Ashshur built, Niyneveh, Recen, Kalach and Rechovoth; and the children of Ashshur dwell there unto this day.
And the children of Aram also went and built themselves a city, and they called the name of the city Uts after their eldest brother, and they dwell therein; that is the land of Uts to this day.
And in the second year after the tower a man from the house of Ashshur, whose name was Bela, went from the land of Niyneveh to sojourn with his household wherever he could find a place; and they came until opposite the cities of the circle of the Yardan against Cedom, and they dwelt there.
And the man rose up and built there a small city, and called its name Bela, after his name; that is the land of Tso'ar unto this day.
And these are the families of the children of Shem according to their language and cities, after they were scattered upon the earth after the tower.
And every kingdom, city, and family of the families of the children of Noach built themselves many cities after this.
And they established governments in all their cities, in order to be regulated by their orders; so did all the families of the children of Noach forever.