The Book of the Cave of Treasures 38

1And the seed of Japhet became thirty-seven nations and kingdoms, viz. Gamar (Gomer), and YAawan, and Madhai, and Tabil, and Mashékh, and Tirés, and all the kingdoms of the Alanayé; all these are the children of Japhet.

2And the sons of Ham—Ktsh (Nubia), and Mesrim (Egypt), and Pot, and Canaan, and all their children. And the sons of Shem—Tl4m (Elamites), and Ashér (Assyrians), and Arpakhshar (Persians?), and Lédh (Lud), and Aram (Arameans, Damascenes, and Harranites), and all their children. Now the children of Japhet clung to the borders of the east, from the Mountain of Nddh, which is on the confines of the east, to the Tigris and the confines of the north, and from Baktdrénés (Bactria?) as far as Gadhrién (Gadarea?). And the children of Shem held from Persia [in] the east as far as the sea of Tadhrasnkés in the west; unto them belongeth the middle of the earth, and they held sovereignty and dominion therein. The children of Shem occupy all the southern and a little of the western quarter.

3And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug. And in the days of Reu, in his one hundred and thirtieth year, Nimrod, the mighty man, the first king on the earth, reigned, and he reigned sixty-nine years; and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel. This Nimrod saw the figure of a crown in the heavens, and he called Sisan, the weaver, who wore a crown like unto it, and he set it on his head. - And because of this men used to say that the crown came down to him from heaven.

4IN THE DAYS OF REU THE THIRD THOUSAND YEARS CAME TO AN END.