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And the whole earth was of onelanguage,[a] and of onespeech.
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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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And they said[b]one to another, Go to, let us makebrick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slimehad they for morter.
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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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And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of menbuilded.
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And the LORDsaid, Behold, the people is one, and they have all onelanguage; and this they begin to do: and now nothingwill be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
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Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language,that they may not understandoneanother'sspeech.
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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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Therefore is the name of itcalledBabel;[c] 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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These are the generations of Shem:Shem was an hundredyearsold, and begatArphaxad two yearsafter the flood:
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And Shemlivedafter he begatArphaxadfivehundredyears, and begatsons and daughters.
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And Arphaxadlivedfive and thirtyyears, and begatSalah:
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And Arphaxadlivedafter he begatSalahfourhundredandthreeyears, and begatsons and daughters.
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And Seruglivedafter he begatNahor two hundredyears, and begatsons and daughters.
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And Nahorlivednine and twentyyears, and begatTerah:[f]
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And Nahorlivedafter he begatTerah an hundredandnineteen*years, and begatsons and daughters.
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And Terahlivedseventyyears, and begatAbram,Nahor, and Haran.
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Now these are the generations of Terah:TerahbegatAbram,Nahor, and Haran; and HaranbegatLot.
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And Harandiedbefore his fatherTerah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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And Abram and Nahortook them wives: the name of Abram'swife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor'swife,Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
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And TerahtookAbram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son'sson, and Sarai his daughter in law, his sonAbram'swife; 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 hundredandfiveyears: and Terahdied in Haran.