Genesis 10:8-10

8 Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became * a mighty one on the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore * it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."

10 The beginning of his kingdom was ¹Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of ²Shinar.

Genesis 10:8-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 10

This chapter gives an account of the posterity of the three sons of Noah, by whom the world was peopled after the flood, Ge 10:1 of the posterity of Japheth, Ge 10:2-5 of the posterity of Ham, Ge 10:6-20 and of the posterity of Shem, Ge 10:21-32.

Cross References

• 1. Genesis 11:9
• 2. Genesis 11:2; Genesis 14:1

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "begot"
• [b] Lit "began to be"
• [c] Or "Babylon"