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Genesis 10:8-10
8
Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.
[1]
9
He was a mighty hunter before the
Lord
. Therefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the
Lord
.
10
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Footnotes
[1]
Or
he began to be a mighty man on the earth
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