- 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 morter.
- 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
- 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:
- 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.
- 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
- 30. But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
- 31. And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son
- 32. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
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