And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

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

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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.

10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon,(A) Uruk,(B) Akkad and Kalneh,(C) in[a] Shinar.[b](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 10:10 Or Uruk and Akkad—all of them in
  2. Genesis 10:10 That is, Babylonia