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11
- 11:1
- And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
- 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.
- 11:3
- 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 morter.
- 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.
- 11:5
- And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which
the children of men builded.
- 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.
- 11:7
- Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language,
that they may not understand one another's speech.
- 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.
- 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.
- 11:10
- These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years
old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
- 11:11
- And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters.
- 11:12
- And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
- 11:13
- And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and
three years, and begat sons and daughters.
- 11:14
- And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
- 11:15
- And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three
years, and begat sons and daughters.
- 11:16
- And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
- 11:17
- And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters.
- 11:18
- And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
- 11:19
- And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years,
and begat sons and daughters.
- 11:20
- And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
- 11:21
- And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven
years, and begat sons and daughters.
- 11:22
- And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
- 11:23
- And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and
begat sons and daughters.
- 11:24
- And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
- 11:25
- And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen
years, and begat sons and daughters.
- 11:26
- And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and
Haran.
- 11:27
- Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
- 11:28
- And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his
nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
- 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.
- 11:30
- But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
- 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.
- 11:32
- And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and
Terah died in Haran.
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