After the Tower of Babel, the descendants of the nations scattered into separate companies. The Kittim settled in the plain of Campania by the river Tiber, while the children of Tubal built the city of Sabino nearby. Conflict erupted immediately—the children of Tubal refused to let the Kittim intermarry with them. So during harvest, the young men of Kittim raided Sabino and kidnapped their daughters.
The next year, when Tubal's army marched against them, the Kittim held up the babies born of those stolen daughters on the city walls. "You have come to fight your own sons and daughters," they called out. "Are we not your own flesh and blood?" The attack was called off.
Into this world came Sefo, the son of Eliphaz, the grandson of Esau. He had fled from Egypt after Joseph's death and served as a captain in Carthage. One day, searching for a lost bull near a mountain, he discovered a cave containing a monstrous creature—human from the waist down, goat from the waist up—devouring his cattle. Sefo split its skull open. The grateful Kittim named the beast "Janus" and gave Sefo that name as an honorific, crowning him their king.
He acquired a second name—Saturnus—after the planet Shabtai, which the Kittim worshipped. Janus Saturnus reigned fifty-five years over all the Kittim and Italy. According to the Chronicles of Jerahmeel, a 12th-century Hebrew chronicle translated by Moses Gaster in 1899, this genealogy traces Rome's founding directly back to the house of Esau. Through Sefo's line came generations of kings who built temples, waged wars, and eventually established the city of Roma, named after Romulus, who built its walls and made a covenant with David.