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- And the whole earth had one language, and the same words.
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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 dwelt there.
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- And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly.
And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
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- And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which [may reach] to the heavens;
and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over 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 built.
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- And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language;
and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing.
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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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- And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.
And they left off building the city.
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- Therefore was its name called Babel;
because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.
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- These are the generations of Shem.
Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
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- And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
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- And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah.
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- And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
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- And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
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- And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
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- And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.
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- And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
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- And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
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- And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
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- And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.
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- And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
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- And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
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- And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
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- And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.
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- And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
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- And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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- And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran;
and Haran begot Lot.
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- And Haran died before the face of his father Terah in the land of his nativity at Ur of the Chaldeans.
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- And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai;
and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, a 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 together out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, and came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.
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- And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years;
and Terah died in Haran.
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