Genesis 10:8 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first to be a mighty man on the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Cush fathered Nimrod, the first great warrior on earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And then Cush conceived Nimrod; he began to be powerful on the earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on earth.

Genesis 10:8 Cross References

Genesis 10:7

And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Hav´ilah, and Sabtah, and Ra´amah, and Sab´techa: and the sons of Ra´amah; Sheba, and Dedan.

Genesis 10:9

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.

Genesis 2:13

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

1 Chronicles 1:10

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

Isaiah 18:2

that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

Micah 5:6

And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.