1:And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. |
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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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And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them
throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. |
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4: And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top
may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. |
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5: And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the
children of men builded. |
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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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7: Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they
may not understand one another's speech. |
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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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9: Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there
confound 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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10: These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and
begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: |
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11: And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat
sons and daughters. |
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12: And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: |
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13: And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years,
and begat sons and daughters. |
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14: And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: |
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15: And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and
begat sons and daughters. |
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16: And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: |
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17: And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years,
and begat sons and daughters. |
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18: And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: |
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19: And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and
begat sons and daughters. |
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20: And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: |
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21: And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and
begat sons and daughters. |
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22: And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: |
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23: And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat
sons and daughters. |
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24: And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: |
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25: And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years,
and begat sons and daughters. |
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26: And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. |
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27: Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and
Haran; and Haran begat Lot. |
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28: And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity,
in Ur of the Chaldees. |
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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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30: But Sarai was barren; she had no child. |
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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 unto Haran, and dwelt there. |
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32: And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died
in Haran. |