Bereshis 10:8-10

Orthodox Jewish Bible

⁸ And Cush fathered Nimrod; he began to be a gibbor in ha’aretz.

⁹ He was a gibbor, a hunter before Hashem; therefore it is said, like Nimrod the gibbor, the hunter before Hashem.

¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Akkad, and Calneh, in Eretz Shinar.