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And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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And it came to pass, as they journeyed 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, 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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And they said , Come, 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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And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower , which the children of men builded .
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And Jehovah said , Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
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Come, let us go down , and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off building the city .
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Therefore was the name of it called Babel ; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth .
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These are the generations of Shem . Shem was a hundred years old , and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood.
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and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters .
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And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelah.
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and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters .
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And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber :
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and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters .
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And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg :
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and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters .
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And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu :
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and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters .
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And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug :
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and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters .
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And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor :
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and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters .
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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
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and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters .
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And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram , Nahor , and Haran.
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Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram , Nahor , and Haran. And Haran begat Lot.
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And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity , in Ur of the Chaldees .
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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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And Sarai was barren ; She had no child.
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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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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran .