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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1There was a time when the entire earth spoke a common language with an identical vocabulary. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2As people migrated westward, they came across a plain in the region of Shinar and settled there. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They told each other, "Come on! Let's burn bricks thoroughly." They used bricks for stone and tar for mortar. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Then they said, "Come on! Let's build ourselves a city and a tower, with its summit in the heavens, and let's make a name for ourselves so we won't be scattered over the surface of the whole earth." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5However, the LORD descended to look over the city and the tower that the humans were building. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The LORD said, "Look! They are one people with the same language for all of them, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. Nothing that they have a mind to do will be impossible for them! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Come on! Let's go down there and confuse their language, so that they won't understand each other's speech." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the surface of the whole earth, so that they had to stop building the city. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Therefore it was called Babylon, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth, and from there the LORD scattered them over the surface of the entire earth. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10These are the family records of Shem. When Shem had lived 100 years, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Shem lived 500 years after he fathered Arpachshad and had other sons and daughters. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Cainan. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13After he fathered Cainan, Arpachshad lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters, and then died. Cainan lived 130 years and fathered Shelah. After he fathered Shelah, Cainan lived 330 years and had other sons and daughters, and then died. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21After he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Now these are the family records of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Haran died during his father's lifetime in the land of his birth, that is, in Ur of the Chaldeans. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of Milcah and Iscah. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Sarai was barren, so she had not borne children. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they journeyed together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they had gone as far as Haran, they settled there, |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32where Terah died at the age of 205 years. |
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