8. Cush also had a descendant named Nimrod. Nimrod became a very powerful man on earth.
9. He was a great hunter before the Lord. That is why people say someone is “like Nimrod, a great hunter before the Lord.”
10. At first Nimrod’s kingdom covered Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh in the land of Babylonia.
11. From there he went to Assyria. There he built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir and Calah.
12. He also built Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.
13. Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
14. Pathrusites, Casluhites and the people of Crete. (The Philistines came from the Casluhites.)