Bible verse

Genesis 10:8

Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

Genesis 10:8 · BSB

Genesis 10:8 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 10.

4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

5 From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.

6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

10 His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

11 From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.

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Genesis 10:8 in other translations

KJV

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

ASV

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

ERV

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

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