NIMROD
The first among the leaders of the corrupt men was Nimrod.[77]
His father Cush had married his mother at an advanced age, and
Nimrod, the offspring of this belated union, was particularly
dear to him as the son of his old age. He gave him the clothes
made of skins with which God had furnished Adam and Eve at the
time of their leaving Paradise. Cush himself had gained
possession of them through Ham. From Adam and Eve they had
descended to Enoch, and from him to Methuselah, and to Noah, and
the last had taken them with him into the ark. When the inmates
of the ark were about to leave their refuge, Ham stole the
garments and kept them concealed, finally passing them on to his
first-born son Cush. Cush in turn hid them for many years. When
his son Nimrod reached his twentieth year, he gave them to