Genesis11

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(Gen 11:1) And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
(Gen 11:2) 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.
(Gen 11:3) And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
(Gen 11:4) 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.
(Gen 11:5) And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
(Gen 11:6) 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.
(Gen 11:7) Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
(Gen 11:8) So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
(Gen 11:9) 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.
(Gen 11:10) These {are} the generations of Shem: Shem {was} an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
(Gen 11:11) And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
(Gen 11:12) And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
(Gen 11:13) And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
(Gen 11:14) And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
(Gen 11:15) And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
(Gen 11:16) And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
(Gen 11:17) And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
(Gen 11:18) And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
(Gen 11:19) And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
(Gen 11:20) And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
(Gen 11:21) And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
(Gen 11:22) And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
(Gen 11:23) And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
(Gen 11:24) And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
(Gen 11:25) And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
(Gen 11:26) And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
(Gen 11:27) Now these {are} the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat lot.
(Gen 11:28) And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
(Gen 11:29) 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.
(Gen 11:30) But Sarai was barren; she {had} no child.
(Gen 11:31) 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.
(Gen 11:32) And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
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