Book of Jasher, Chapter 10 — The Sons of Noah Scattered; They Build Cities throughout the Earth
1And Peleg the son of Eber died in those days, in the forty-eighth year of the life of Abram the son of Terah; and all the days of Peleg were two hundred and thirty-nine years.
2And when the Lord had scattered the sons of men on account of their sin at the tower, behold, they spread out into many divisions, and all the sons of men were dispersed to the four corners of the earth.
3And every family went to its own language, its land, or its city.
4And the sons of men built many cities according to their families, in all the places where they went, and throughout the earth where the Lord had scattered them.
5And some of them built cities in places from which they were later uprooted; and they called these cities after their own names, or the names of their children, or after what had befallen them.
6And the sons of Japheth the son of Noah 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 Japheth were divided upon the face of the earth into many divisions and languages.
7And these are the sons of Japheth according to their families: Gomer, Magog, Medai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras; these are the children of Japheth according to their generations.
8And the children of Gomer, according to their cities, were the Francum, who dwell in the land of Franza, by the river Franza, by the river Senah.
9And the children of Rephath are the Bartonim, who dwell in the land of Bartonia, by the river Ledah, which empties its waters into the great sea Gihon — that is, the ocean.
10And the children of Tugarma are ten families, and these are their names: Buzar, Parzunac, Balgar, Elicanum, Ragbib, Tarki, Bid, Zebuc, Ongal, and Tilmaz; all these spread abroad and settled in the north, and built themselves cities.
11And they called their cities after their own names; these are they who dwell by the rivers Hithlah and Italac to this day.
12But the families of Angoli, Balgar, and Parzunac dwell by the great river Dubnee; and the names of their cities are likewise after their own names.
13And the children of Javan are the Javanim, who dwell in the land of Makdonia; and the children of Medai are the Orelum, who dwell in the land of Curson; and the children of Tubal are those who dwell in the land of Tuskanah, by the river Pashiah.
14And the children of Meshech are the Shibashni; and the children of Tiras are Rushash, Cushni, and Ongolis; all these went and built themselves cities — those are the cities situated by the sea Jabus, by the river Cura, which empties into the river Tragan.
15And the children of Elishah are the Almanim, and they also went and built themselves cities; those are the cities situated between the mountains of Job and Shibathmo; and from them came the people of Lumbardi, who dwell opposite the mountains of Job and Shibathmo, and they conquered the land of Italia and have remained there to this day.
16And the children of Chittim are the Romim, who dwell in the valley of Canopia, by the river Tibreu.
17And the children of Dudonim are those who dwell in the cities of the sea Gihon, in the land of Bordna.
18These are the families of the children of Japheth according to their cities and languages, when they were scattered after the tower; and they called their cities after their names and after what had befallen them; and these are the names of all their cities according to their families, which they built in those days after the tower.
19And the children of Ham were Cush, Mitzraim, Phut, and Canaan, according to their generations and their cities.
20All these went and built themselves cities, as they found fitting places for them; and they called their cities after the names of their fathers — Cush, Mitzraim, Phut, and Canaan.
21And the children of Mitzraim are the Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuchim, Pathrusim, Casluchim, and Caphturim — seven families.
22All these dwell by the river Sihor — that is, the brook of Egypt — and they built themselves cities, and called them after their own names.
23And the children of Pathros and Casloch intermarried, and from them went forth the Pelishtim, the Azathim, and the Gerarim, the Githim and the Ekronim — five families in all; these also built themselves cities, and they called their cities after the names of their fathers to this day.
24And the children of Canaan also built themselves cities, and they called their cities after their names — eleven cities, and others without number.
25And four men from the family of Ham went to the land of the plain; and these are the names of the four men: Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboyim.
26And these men built themselves four cities in the land of the plain, and they called the names of their cities after their own names.
27And they and their children and all who belonged to them dwelt in those cities; and they were fruitful and multiplied greatly, and dwelt in peace.
28And Seir the son of Hur, son of Hivi, son of Canaan, went and found a valley opposite Mount Paran, and he built a city there; and he and his seven sons and his household dwelt there, and he called the city that he built Seir, after his name; that is the land of Seir to this day.
29These are the families of the children of Ham, according to their languages and cities, when they were scattered to their countries after the tower.
30And some of the children of Shem the son of Noah, the father of all the children of Eber, also went and built themselves cities in the places where they were scattered, and they called their cities after their names.
31And the sons of Shem were Elam, Ashur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram; and they built themselves cities, and called the names of all their cities after their names.
32And Ashur the son of Shem, and his children and household, went out at that time — a very large company of them — and they went to a distant land that they found; and they came upon a very broad valley in the land they went to, and they built themselves four cities, and called them after their own names and after what had befallen them.
33And these are the names of the cities the children of Ashur built: Nineveh, Resen, Calach, and Rehoboth; and the children of Ashur dwell there to this day.
34And the children of Aram also went and built themselves a city, and they called the name of the city Uz, after their eldest brother; and they dwell in it; that is the land of Uz to this day.
35And in the second year after the tower, a man from the house of Ashur, whose name was Bela, went from the land of Nineveh to sojourn with his household wherever he could find a place; and they came to a place opposite the cities of the plain, over against Sodom, and they dwelt there.
36And the man rose up and built there a small city, and called its name Bela, after his name; that is the land of Zoar to this day.
37And these are the families of the children of Shem according to their languages and cities, after they were scattered upon the earth after the tower.
38And every kingdom, city, and family of the families of the children of Noah built themselves many cities after this.
39And they established governments in all their cities, in order to be regulated by their laws; so did all the families of the children of Noah forever.