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

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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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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth:
and they left off to build the city.

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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.

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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.

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And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years,
and begat Salah:

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And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years,
and begat sons and daughters.

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And Salah lived thirty years,
and begat Eber:

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And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years,
and begat sons and daughters.

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And Eber lived four and thirty years,
and begat Peleg:

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And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years,
and begat sons and daughters.

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And Peleg lived thirty years,
and begat Reu:

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And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years,
and begat sons and daughters.

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And Reu lived two and thirty years,
and begat Serug:

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And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years,
and begat sons and daughters.

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And Serug lived thirty years,
and begat Nahor:

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And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters.

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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years,
and begat Terah:

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And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years,
and begat sons and daughters.

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And Terah lived seventy years,
and begat Abram,
Nahor,
and Haran.

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Now these are the generations of Terah:
Terah begat Abram,
Nahor,
and Haran;
and Haran begat Lot.

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And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity,
in Ur of the Chaldees.

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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.

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But Sarai was barren;
she had no child.

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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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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years:
and Terah died in Haran.