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Cush[a] became the father of Nimrod, who was the first to become a mighty warrior on earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:8 Cush: here seems to be Cossea, the country of the Kassites; see note on 2:10–14. Nimrod: possibly Tukulti-Ninurta I (thirteenth century B.C.), the first Assyrian conqueror of Babylonia and a famous city-builder at home.

Cush was the father[a] of Nimrod,(A) who became a mighty warrior on the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 10:8 Father may mean ancestor or predecessor or founder; also in verses 13, 15, 24 and 26.