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Cush's descendants were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah's descendants were Sheba and Dedan.
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Cush was the father of Nimrod, the first mighty warrior on the earth.
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He was a mighty hunter whom the LORD blessed. That's why people used to say, "[He's] like Nimrod, a mighty hunter whom the LORD blessed."
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The first [cities] in his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in Shinar [Babylonia].
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He went from that land to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
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and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.
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Egypt was the ancestor of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
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Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.
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Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, then Heth,
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also the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
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the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,