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| 1Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. | 1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. |
| 2As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. | 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. |
| 3They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. | 3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. |
| 4Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth." | 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. |
| 5But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. | 5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. |
| 6The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. | 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. |
| 7Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." | 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 from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. | 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. |
| 9That is why it was called Babel --because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth. | 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. |
| 10This is the account of Shem's family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad. | 10These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: |
| 11And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters. | 11And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 12When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah. | 12And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: |
| 13And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters. | 13And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 14When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber. | 14And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: |
| 15And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters. | 15And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 16When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg. | 16And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: |
| 17And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters. | 17And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 18When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu. | 18And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: |
| 19And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters. | 19And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 20When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug. | 20And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: |
| 21And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters. | 21And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 22When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor. | 22And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: |
| 23And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters. | 23And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 24When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah. | 24And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: |
| 25And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters. | 25And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 26After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. | 26And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. |
| 27This is the account of Terah's family line. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. | 27Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. |
| 28While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth. | 28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. |
| 29Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milkah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah. | 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. |
| 30Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive. | 30But Sarai was barren; she had no child. |
| 31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there. | 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. |
| 32Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran. | 32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. |
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