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| 11:1 |
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
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| 11:2 |
And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
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| 11:3 |
And they said one to another, come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
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| 11:4 |
And they said, come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we should be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
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| 11:5 |
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men were building.
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| 11:6 |
And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
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| 11:7 |
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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| 11:8 |
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
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| 11:9 |
Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD there confounded the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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| 11:10 |
These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] a hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
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| 11:11 |
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 11:12 |
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah.
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| 11:13 |
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 11:14 |
And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
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| 11:15 |
And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 11:16 |
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
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| 11:17 |
And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 11:18 |
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
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| 11:19 |
And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 11:20 |
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug.
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| 11:21 |
And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 11:22 |
And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
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| 11:23 |
And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 11:24 |
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah.
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| 11:25 |
And Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 11:26 |
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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| 11:27 |
Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and Haran begat Lot.
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| 11:28 |
And Haran died before his father Terah, in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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| 11:29 |
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
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| 11:30 |
But Sarai [was] barren; she had no child.
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| 11:31 |
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.
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| 11:32 |
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
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