9:20 Noah, a man of the soil, 1 began to plant a vineyard. 2
10:8 Cush was the father of 3 Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.
1 sn The epithet a man of the soil indicates that Noah was a farmer.
2 tn Or “Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard”; Heb “and Noah, a man of the ground, began and he planted a vineyard.”
3 tn Heb “fathered.” Embedded within Cush’s genealogy is an account of Nimrod, a mighty warrior. There have been many attempts to identify him, but none are convincing.