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1 erat autem terra labii unius et sermonum eorundem
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And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
2 cumque proficiscerentur de oriente invenerunt campum in terra Sennaar et habitaverunt in eo
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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.
3 dixitque alter ad proximum suum venite faciamus lateres et coquamus eos igni habueruntque lateres pro saxis et bitumen pro cemento
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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.
4 et dixerunt venite faciamus nobis civitatem et turrem cuius culmen pertingat ad caelum et celebremus nomen nostrum antequam dividamur in universas terras
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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.
5 descendit autem Dominus ut videret civitatem et turrem quam aedificabant filii Adam
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And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 et dixit ecce unus est populus et unum labium omnibus coeperuntque hoc facere nec desistent a cogitationibus suis donec eas opere conpleant
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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.
7 venite igitur descendamus et confundamus ibi linguam eorum ut non audiat unusquisque vocem proximi sui
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Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 atque ita divisit eos Dominus ex illo loco in universas terras et cessaverunt aedificare civitatem
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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.
9 et idcirco vocatum est nomen eius Babel quia ibi confusum est labium universae terrae et inde dispersit eos Dominus super faciem cunctarum regionum
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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.
10 hae generationes Sem Sem centum erat annorum quando genuit Arfaxad biennio post diluvium
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These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood.
11 vixitque Sem postquam genuit Arfaxad quingentos annos et genuit filios et filias
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and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
12 porro Arfaxad vixit triginta quinque annos et genuit Sale
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And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelah.
13 vixitque Arfaxad postquam genuit Sale trecentis tribus annis et genuit filios et filias
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and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
14 Sale quoque vixit triginta annis et genuit Eber
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And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
15 vixitque Sale postquam genuit Eber quadringentis tribus annis et genuit filios et filias
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and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
16 vixit autem Eber triginta quattuor annis et genuit Faleg
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And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
17 et vixit Eber postquam genuit Faleg quadringentis triginta annis et genuit filios et filias
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and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
18 vixit quoque Faleg triginta annis et genuit Reu
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And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
19 vixitque Faleg postquam genuit Reu ducentis novem annis et genuit filios et filias
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and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
20 vixit autem Reu triginta duobus annis et genuit Sarug
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And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
21 vixitque Reu postquam genuit Sarug ducentis septem annis et genuit filios et filias
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and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
22 vixit vero Sarug triginta annis et genuit Nahor
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And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
23 vixitque Sarug postquam genuit Nahor ducentos annos et genuit filios et filias
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and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
24 vixit autem Nahor viginti novem annis et genuit Thare
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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
25 vixitque Nahor postquam genuit Thare centum decem et novem annos et genuit filios et filias
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and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
26 vixitque Thare septuaginta annis et genuit Abram et Nahor et Aran
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And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 hae sunt autem generationes Thare Thare genuit Abram et Nahor et Aran porro Aran genuit Loth
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Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begat Lot.
28 mortuusque est Aran ante Thare patrem suum in terra nativitatis suae in Ur Chaldeorum
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And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 duxerunt autem Abram et Nahor uxores nomen autem uxoris Abram Sarai et nomen uxoris Nahor Melcha filia Aran patris Melchae et patris Ieschae
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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.
30 erat autem Sarai sterilis nec habebat liberos
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And Sarai was barren; She had no child.
31 tulit itaque Thare Abram filium suum et Loth filium Aran filium filii sui et Sarai nurum suam uxorem Abram filii sui et eduxit eos de Ur Chaldeorum ut irent in terram Chanaan veneruntque usque Haran et habitaverunt ibi
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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.
32 et facti sunt dies Thare ducentorum quinque annorum et mortuus est in Haran
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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
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