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the whole earth was of 1one language, and of one speech.
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2 | And it came to pass, as they journeyed 
from the east, that they found a plain in the land of 1,aShinar; and they dwelt 
there.
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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 
1scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
 
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5 | And the LORD came 1down to see the city and the 
tower, which the children of men builded.
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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 1us go down, and there 
confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
 
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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 aBabel; 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:  | 
 
11 | 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 1Salah:
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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 1Eber 
lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
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17 | And Eber lived after he begat 1Peleg four hundred and 
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
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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.  | 
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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat 1Terah:
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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 1Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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27 | Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and 
Haran; and Haran begat 1Lot.
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28 | 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 1Sarai; and
the name of Nahor's wife, 2Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah,
and the father of Iscah.
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But Sarai was 1barren; she had no child.
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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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