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Genesis 10:8
And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.
Genesis 10:8 · Bible in Basic English
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Genesis 10:8 in other translations
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.
Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
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In context
5 From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.
6 And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
8 And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.
9 He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.
10 And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,
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