Gen 11
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And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
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And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of
Senaar, and they dwelt there.
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And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire.
And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
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And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be
to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon
the face of all the earth.
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And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
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And the Lord said, Behold, there is one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun
to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken
to do.
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Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand
each the voice of his neighbour.
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And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off
building the city and the tower.
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On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the
languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all
the earth.
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And these are the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he engendered
Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
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And Sem lived, after he had engendered Arphaxad, five hundred years, and engendered
sons and daughters, and died.
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And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and engendered Cainan.
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And Arphaxad lived after he had engendered Cainan, Alex. 480 four hundred years, and engendered sons and daughters, and died.
And Cainan lived
a hundred and thirty years and engendered Sala; and Canaan lived after he had engendered
Sala, three hundred and thirty years, and engendered sons and daughters, and died.
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And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and engendered Heber.
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And Sala lived after he had engendered Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and
engendered sons and daughters, and died.
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And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and engendered Phaleg.
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And Heber lived after he had engendered Phaleg Alex. 370 two hundred and seventy years, and engendered sons and daughters,
and died.
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And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and engendered Ragau.
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And Phaleg lived after he had engendered Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and engendered
sons and daughters, and died.
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And Ragau lived and hundred thirty and two years, and engendered Seruch.
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And Raau lived after he had engendered Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and engendered
sons and daughters, and died.
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And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and engendered Nachor.
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And Seruch lived after he had engendered Nachor, two hundred years, and engendered
sons and daughters, and died.
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And Nachor lived Alex. 79 years a hundred and seventy-nine years, and engendered Tharrha.
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And Nachor lived after he had engendered Tharrha, Alex. 129 an hundred and twenty-five years, and engendered sons and daughters,
and he died.
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And Tharrha lived seventy years, and engendered Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
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And these are the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha engendered Abram and Nachor, and
Arrhan; and Arrhan engendered Lot.
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And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was
born, in the country of the Chaldees.
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And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sara,
There seems to be no note of the date of Abram’s marriage with Sara and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of
Arrhan, and he was the father
of Malcha, the father of Jescha.
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And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
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And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara
his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land
of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan, and they came as far as Charrhan,
and he dwelt there.
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And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years,
and Tharrha died in Charrhan.