Individual companion track · KJV first

Nimrod
A mighty hunter and the beginning of a kingdom

The KJV names Nimrod, his descent from Cush, his might, and the beginning of his kingdom. Jasher adds a long royal narrative, ages, wars, and a reported death; those additions remain historical testimony.

The governing order

Scripture establishes the line; Jasher supplies additional detail.

Jasher historical parallel

Additional narratives are retained as testimony and always identified by source.

No silent harmonizing

Where Jasher adds an identity, event, age, or conflict absent from Scripture, the distinction remains visible.

01 · KJV record and historical parallel

The biblical foundation

Genesis 10:8–12 · KJV foundation

Scripture identifies Nimrod as a mighty one and mighty hunter, then names Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the beginning of his kingdom.

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02 · KJV record and historical parallel

Jasher’s rise of Nimrod

Genesis 10:9–10 · KJV foundation

The biblical record establishes Nimrod’s might and kingdom without supplying his age or coronation year.

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Jasher 7:23–51 · historical parallel

Jasher supplies the fuller narrative associated with this stage of the track.

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Source boundary: The garments, age twenty, age forty, Terah’s office, and coronation narrative are reported by Jasher, not Genesis.

03 · KJV record and historical parallel

Babel and the scattering

Genesis 11:1–9 · KJV foundation

The KJV records the tower, God’s judgment upon human pride, the confounding of language, and the scattering of the people.

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Jasher 9:20–39; 10:1–2 · historical parallel

Jasher supplies the fuller narrative associated with this stage of the track.

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Source boundary: Genesis does not name Nimrod in the tower account or supply an absolute year for Babel.

04 · KJV record and historical parallel

Nimrod, Abraham, and the four kings

Genesis 14:1–20 · KJV foundation

Genesis names Amraphel king of Shinar and records Abram’s victory over the four kings.

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Jasher 13:12–16; 16:1–17 · historical parallel

Jasher supplies the fuller narrative associated with this stage of the track.

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Source boundary: Jasher identifies Amraphel with Nimrod; the KJV does not make that identification.

05 · KJV record and historical parallel

Jasher’s account of Nimrod’s death

Genesis 25:7–10, 29–34 · KJV foundation

Scripture records Abraham’s death and Esau’s sale of the birthright, but it does not record Nimrod’s death.

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Jasher 26:29; 27:1–17 · historical parallel

Jasher supplies the fuller narrative associated with this stage of the track.

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Source boundary: The report that Esau killed Nimrod and that Nimrod lived 215 years belongs to Jasher alone; its reign figures do not harmonize cleanly.

What the page establishes

The KJV establishes Nimrod’s place in the post-Flood world; Jasher’s expanded biography remains a labeled companion record.

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