Genesis 10:8-10

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁸ Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to become a mighty warrior. ⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, ‘Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.’ ¹⁰ The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.