Genesis 11
The Tower of Babel |
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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 from the 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, Go to, 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, 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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And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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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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Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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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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Therefore is the name of it called Babel; 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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The Descendants of Shem |
1 Chr. 1.24-27 |
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These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arphax'ad two years after the flood:
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and Shem lived after he begat Arphax'ad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Arphax'ad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
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And Arphax'ad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
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and Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
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and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Re'u:
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and Peleg lived after he begat Re'u two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Re'u lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
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and Re'u lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
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and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
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and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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The Descendants of Terah |
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Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat 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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But 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 unto Haran, and dwelt there.
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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
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