Gen 10:8-11 | NASB1995 | STEP | Now Cush became the father of Nimrod ; he became a mighty one on the earth .

Genesis 10:8-11

8 Now Cush ^{▼▼ Lit begot}became the father of Nimrod; he ^{▼▼ Lit began to be}became a mighty one on the earth. 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 ^{▼▼ Or Babylon
,} ^dBabel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of ^eShinar. 11 From that land he went forth ^finto Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,