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Chapter 11 |
| 1 | And the whole
earth was of one language, and of one speech. |
| 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. |
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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 mortar. |
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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. |
| 5 | And
the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men
builded. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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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| And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 12 | And Arphaxad lived five and
thirty years, and begat Salah: |
| 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: |
| 15 | And Salah
lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and
daughters. |
| 16
| And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat
Peleg: |
| 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: |
| 19 | And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two
hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 20 | And Reu
lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: |
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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: |
| 23 | And Serug
lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters. |
| 24
| And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat
Terah: |
| 25
| And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and
nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 26 | And Terah
lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. |
| 27 | Now these
are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran
begat Lot. |
| 28
| And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his
nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. |
| 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. |
| 30
| But Sarai was barren; she had no child. |
| 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. |
