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Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. |
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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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Then they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake [them] thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. |
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And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top [is] in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." |
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But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. |
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And the LORD said, "Indeed the people [are] one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. |
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"Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." |
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So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. |
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Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. |
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This [is] the genealogy of Shem: Shem [was] one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood. |
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After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. |
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Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah. |
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After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. |
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Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber. |
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After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. |
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Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg. |
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After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters. |
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Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu. |
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After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters. |
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Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug. |
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After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters. |
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Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. |
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After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. |
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Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah. |
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After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters. |
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Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. |
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This [is] the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. |
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And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. |
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Then Abram and Nahor took 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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But Sarai was barren; she had no child. |
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And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. |
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So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran. |
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