Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
New International Version NIV
1 And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
2 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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As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick instead of stone and slime instead of mortar.
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They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose top <em>may reach</em> 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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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; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of the man built.
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But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people <em>are</em> one, and they all have one language; and they begin to do this, and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do.
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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.
7 Now, let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand one another’s speech.
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Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth, and they left off to build the city.
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So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 Therefore the name of it was called Babel because there the LORD confounded the language of all the earth, and from there the LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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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.
10 These <em>are</em> the generations of Shem: Shem <em>was</em> one hundred years old and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
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This is the account of Shem’s family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years and begat sons and daughters.
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And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years and begat Salah;
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When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.
13 and Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years and begat sons and daughters.
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And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
14 And Salah lived thirty years and begat Eber;
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When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.
15 and Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years and begat sons and daughters.
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And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived thirty-four years and begat Peleg;
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When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.
17 and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years and begat sons and daughters.
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And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years and begat Reu;
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When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.
19 and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years and begat sons and daughters.
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And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived thirty-two years and begat Serug;
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When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.
21 and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years and begat sons and daughters.
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And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years and begat Nahor;
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When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.
23 and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years and begat sons and daughters.
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And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and begat Terah;
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When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.
25 and Nahor lived after he begat Terah one hundred and nineteen years and begat sons and daughters.
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And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived seventy years and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.
27 Now these <em>are</em> the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
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This is the account of Terah’s family line. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nature, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.
29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves; the name of Abram’s wife <em>was</em> 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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Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah.
30 But Sarai was barren; she <em>had</em> no child.
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Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.
31 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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Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
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Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.
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