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

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

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.”

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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

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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