Genesis 10:8-11
Read Genesis 10 in full →8Now Cush 1was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. 9He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahweh.” 10The beginning of his kingdom was 1,aBabel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of bShinar. 11From that land he went out ato Assyria and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,