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And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech (11:1)

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 (11:2)

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar (11:3)

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 (11:4)

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded (11:5)

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 (11:6)

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech (11:7)

So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city (11:8)

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 (11:9)

These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: (11:10)

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters (11:11)

And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: (11:12)

And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters (11:13)

And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: (11:14)

And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters (11:15)

And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: (11:16)

And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters (11:17)

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: (11:18)

And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters (11:19)

And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: (11:20)

And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters (11:21)

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: (11:22)

And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters (11:23)

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: (11:24)

And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters (11:25)

And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran (11:26)

Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot (11:27)

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees (11:28)

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 (11:29)

But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child (11:30)

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 (11:31)

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran (11:32)

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