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The
Tower of Babel
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.
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.
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.
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.
From Shem to Abram
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an
hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the
flood:
11 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.
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.
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:
21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and
seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
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.
Abram’s Family
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.
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five
years: and Terah died in Haran.
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