Genesis 10:10 NIV

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Genesis 10:10

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Historical scholarship proposed candidate locations for the city of “Calneh”, but it is now considered most likely, in a suggestion going back to W.F. Albright (1944), that the word did not in origin refer to a city but has been corrupted from an expression meaning “all of them”.

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The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.

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He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.” Genesis 10:9 NIV