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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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4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over 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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5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
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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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6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
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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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7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
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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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8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building 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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9 That is why it was called Babel--because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole 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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10 This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
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11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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11 And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
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12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
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12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.
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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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13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
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14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
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14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.
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