Genesis 10:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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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

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

Genesis 10:9

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

Genesis 2:13

The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Cush.

1 Chronicles 1:10

Cush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Isaiah 18:2

which sends ambassadors by the Nile, in vessels of papyrus upon the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.

Micah 5:6

they shall rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the drawn sword; and they shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.