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1 erat autem terra labii unius et sermonum eorundem
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Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.
2 cumque proficiscerentur de oriente invenerunt campum in terra Sennaar et habitaverunt in eo
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And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled 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 to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. ” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen 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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Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth. ”
5 descendit autem Dominus ut videret civitatem et turrem quam aedificabant filii Adam
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And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
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 the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
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 confuse their language, so 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 the Lord dispersed them from there over 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 its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over 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. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered 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 fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
12 porro Arfaxad vixit triginta quinque annos et genuit Sale
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When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah.
13 vixitque Arfaxad postquam genuit Sale trecentis tribus annis et genuit filios et filias
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And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
14 Sale quoque vixit triginta annis et genuit Eber
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When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber.
15 vixitque Sale postquam genuit Eber quadringentis tribus annis et genuit filios et filias
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And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 vixit autem Eber triginta quattuor annis et genuit Faleg
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When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered 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 fathered Peleg 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 vixit quoque Faleg triginta annis et genuit Reu
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When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu.
19 vixitque Faleg postquam genuit Reu ducentis novem annis et genuit filios et filias
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And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 vixit autem Reu triginta duobus annis et genuit Sarug
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When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug.
21 vixitque Reu postquam genuit Sarug ducentis septem annis et genuit filios et filias
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And Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 vixit vero Sarug triginta annis et genuit Nahor
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When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor.
23 vixitque Sarug postquam genuit Nahor ducentos annos et genuit filios et filias
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And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 vixit autem Nahor viginti novem annis et genuit Thare
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When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered 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 fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 vixitque Thare septuaginta annis et genuit Abram et Nahor et Aran
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When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered 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 fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.
28 mortuusque est Aran ante Thare patrem suum in terra nativitatis suae in Ur Chaldeorum
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Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
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 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 Iscah.
30 erat autem Sarai sterilis nec habebat liberos
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Now 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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Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
32 et facti sunt dies Thare ducentorum quinque annorum et mortuus est in Haran
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The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.
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