VERSE STUDY • KJV

1 Chronicles 1:10

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

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And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

Cush became the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the land.

7 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

8 The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

9 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

12 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.

13 And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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