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Genesis 11:1
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And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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Genesis 11:2
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And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
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Genesis 11:3
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And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
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Genesis 11:4
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And they said, Come, 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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Genesis 11:5
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And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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Genesis 11:6
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And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
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Genesis 11:7
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Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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Genesis 11:8
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So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.
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Genesis 11:9
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Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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Genesis 11:10
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These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood.
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Genesis 11:11
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and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:12
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And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelah.
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Genesis 11:13
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and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:14
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And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
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Genesis 11:15
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and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:16
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And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
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Genesis 11:17
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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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Genesis 11:18
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And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
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Genesis 11:19
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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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Genesis 11:20
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And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
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Genesis 11:21
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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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Genesis 11:22
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And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
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Genesis 11:23
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and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:24
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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
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Genesis 11:25
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and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:26
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And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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Genesis 11:27
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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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Genesis 11:28
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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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Genesis 11:29
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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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Genesis 11:30
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And Sarai was barren; She had no child.
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Genesis 11:31
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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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Genesis 11:32
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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
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