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Book of Genesis - Chapter 11 (KJV)

Book of Genesis - Chapter 11 (KJV)
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¹And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
²And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
³And 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.
⁴And 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.
⁵And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
⁶And 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.
⁷Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
⁸So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
⁹Therefore 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.
¹⁰These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood
¹¹And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
¹²And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah
¹³And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
¹⁴And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber
¹⁵And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
¹⁶And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg
¹⁷And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
¹⁸And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu
¹⁹And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
²⁰And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug
²¹And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
²²And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor
²³And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
²⁴And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah
²⁵And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
²⁶And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
²⁷Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
²⁸And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
²⁹And 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.
³⁰But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
³¹And 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.
³²And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
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Book of Genesis - Chapter 11 (KJV)

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