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Gen_11_01 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. ~

Gen_11_02 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_03 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. ~

Gen_11_04 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_05 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. ~

Gen_11_06 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_07 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. ~

Gen_11_08 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_09 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. ~