Gen 11
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And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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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.
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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.
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And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] to
heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the
whole earth.
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And YHWH came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
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And YHWH 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.
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Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand
one another`s speech.
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So YHWH scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth: and they
left off building the city.
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Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because YHWH did there confound the language
of all the earth: and from there did YHWH scatter them abroad upon the face of all
the earth.
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These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and engendered Arpachshad
two years after the flood.
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and Shem lived after he engendered Arpachshad five hundred years, and engendered sons
and daughters.
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And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and engendered Shelah.
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and Arpachshad lived after he engendered Shelah four hundred and three years, and
engendered sons and daughters.
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And Shelah lived thirty years, and engendered Eber:
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and Shelah lived after he engendered Eber four hundred and three years, and engendered
sons and daughters.
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And Eber lived four and thirty years, and engendered Peleg:
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and Eber lived after he engendered Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and engendered
sons and daughters.
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And Peleg lived thirty years, and engendered Reu:
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and Peleg lived after he engendered Reu two hundred and nine years, and engendered
sons and daughters.
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And Reu lived two and thirty years, and engendered Serug:
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and Reu lived after he engendered Serug two hundred and seven years, and engendered
sons and daughters.
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And Serug lived thirty years, and engendered Nahor:
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and Serug lived after he engendered Nahor two hundred years, and engendered sons and
daughters.
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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and engendered Terah:
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and Nahor lived after he engendered Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and engendered
sons and daughters.
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And Terah lived seventy years, and engendered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah engendered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
And Haran engendered Lot.
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And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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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.
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And Sarai was barren; She had no child.
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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 to Haran, and dwelt there.
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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.