GENESIS 10:8-10 (KJV)

⁸And Kush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. ⁹He was a mighty hunter before YHVH: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before YHVH. ¹⁰And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erek, and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.