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Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to become a mighty warrior.
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He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord."
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The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.
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From that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah, and
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Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
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Egypt became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
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Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim, from which the Philistines come.
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Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
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and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
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the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
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the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.