Genesis 10:10 RSV

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Genesis 10:10

corrupted expression

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”.

erech

William Kennett Loftus visited the site of Uruk in 1849, identifying it as “Erech”, known as “the second city of Nimrod”, and led the first excavations from 1850 to 1854.

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The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.

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From that land he went into Assyria, and built Nin′eveh, Reho′both-Ir, Calah, and Genesis 10:11 RSV

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