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Genesis 10:9

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

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

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

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

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

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

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