| 1 ¶ And the whole earth was of one language,1 and of one speech.2
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| 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from3 the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
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| 3 And they said4 one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn5 them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
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| 4 And they said, Go to, 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.
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| 5 ¶ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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| 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
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| 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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| 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
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| 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel;6 because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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| 10 ¶ These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
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| 11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
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| 13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
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| 15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:7
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| 17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
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| 19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:8
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| 21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
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| 23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:9
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| 25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
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| 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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| 27 ¶ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
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| 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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| 29 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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| 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
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| 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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| 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
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