Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
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And as people journeyed eastward , they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
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And they said to one another , “ Come , let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. ” So they used brick instead of stone , and tar - instead of mortar.
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“ Come , ” they said , “ let us build a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens , that we may make a name and not be scattered over the face of all the earth. ”
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Then the LORD came down to see - the city - and the tower that the sons of men were building.
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And the LORD said , “ If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same ... language , then nothing ... - they devise ... will be beyond
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Come , let Us go down ... and confuse their language , so that they will not understand one another’s speech. ”
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So the LORD - scattered them from there over the face of all the earth , and they stopped building the city.
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That is why ... it is called Babel , for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world , and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
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This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood , when Shem was 100 years old , he became the father of - Arphaxad.
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And after he had become the father of - Arphaxad , Shem lived 500 ... years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Arphaxad was 35 ... years old , he became the father of - Shelah.
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And after he had become the father of - Shelah , Arphaxad lived 403 ... ... years ... and had other sons and daughters.
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When Shelah was 30 years old , he became the father of - Eber.
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And after he had become the father of - Eber , Shelah lived 403 ... ... ... years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Eber was 34 ... years old , he became the father of - Peleg.
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And after he had become the father of - Peleg , Eber lived 430 ... ... ... years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Peleg was 30 years old , he became the father of - Reu.
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And after he had become the father of - Reu , Peleg lived 209 ... ... years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Reu was 32 ... years old , he became the father of - Serug.
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And after he had become the father of - Serug , Reu lived 207 ... ... years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Serug was 30 years old , he became the father of - Nahor.
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And after he had become the father of - Nahor , Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Nahor was 29 ... years old , he became the father of - Terah.
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And after he had become the father of - Terah , Nahor lived 119 ... ... ... years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Terah was 70 years old , he became the father of - Abram , - Nahor , - and Haran.
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This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of - Abram , - Nahor , - and Haran. And Haran became the father of - Lot.
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During ... his father Terah’s lifetime , Haran died in his native land , in Ur of the Chaldeans.
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And Abram and Nahor took wives Abram’s wife was named Sarai , and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah ; she was the daughter of Haran , (who was) the father of both Milcah ... and Iscah.
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But Sarai was barren ; no children.
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And Terah - took his son - Abram , his grandson ... Lot son of Haran , and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife - of Abram , and they set out ... from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran , they settled there.
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Terah lived ... 205 ... ... years , and he died ... in Haran.
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