10 Cush fathered Nimrod. He was the first on earth to be a mighty man.[a]

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  1. 1 Chronicles 1:10 Or He began to be a mighty man on the earth

Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.[a] 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 (A)Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in (B)the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and 12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

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  1. Genesis 10:8 Or he began to be a mighty man on the earth

they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,
    and the land of (A)Nimrod at its entrances;
and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian
    (B)when he comes into our land
    and treads within our border.

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