7 Cush’s descendants wereSeba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah,and Sabteca.Raamah’s descendants wereSheba and Dedan.
8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, the first mighty warrior on the earth.
9 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.”
10 The first ⌊cities⌋ in his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in Shinar [Babylonia].
11 He went from that land to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
12 and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.
13 Egypt was the ancestor ofthe Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, 14 Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.