Genesis 10:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first to be a mighty man on the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Common English Bible

⁸ Cush fathered Nimrod, the first great warrior on earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And then Cush conceived Nimrod; he began to be powerful on the earth.

Genesis 10:8 Cross References

Micah 5:6

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

Genesis 10:7

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

Genesis 10:9

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.

Isaiah 18:2

that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!

Genesis 2:13

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

1 Chronicles 1:10

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