8. Cush also had a son named Nimrod who became a very powerful man on earth.
9. He was a great hunter before the Lord. That is why people compare other men to him and say, “That man is like Nimrod, a great hunter before the Lord.”
10. Nimrod’s kingdom spread from Babylon to Erech, to Akkad, and then to Calneh in the land of Babylonia.
11. Nimrod also went into Assyria. In Assyria, Nimrod built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, and
12. Resen. (Resen is the city between Nineveh and Calah, the big city.)
13. Mizraim was the father of the people of Lud, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,
14. Pathrus, Casluh, and Caphtor. (The Philistine people came from Casluh.)
15. Canaan was the father of Sidon. Sidon was Canaan’s first son. Canaan was also the father of the Hittites,