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\v 1 Now the whole earth used one language and had the same words.
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\v 2 As they journeyed in the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they settled there.
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\v 3 They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They had brick instead of stone and tar as mortar.
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\v 4 They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top will reach to the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves. If we do not, we will be scattered across the surface of the whole earth."
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\v 5 So Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the descendants of Adam had built.
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\v 6 Yahweh said, "Look, they are one people with the same language, and they are beginning to do this! Soon nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.
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\v 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they may not understand each other."
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\v 8 So Yahweh scattered them from there across the surface of all the earth and they stopped building the city.
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\v 9 Therefore, its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth and from there Yahweh scattered them abroad over the surface of all the earth.
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\v 10 These were the descendants of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and he became the father of Arphaxad two years after the flood.
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\v 11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arphaxad. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
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\v 12 When Arphaxad had lived thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah.
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\v 13 Arphaxad lived 403 years after he became the father of Shelah. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
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\v 14 When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber.
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\v 15 Shelah lived 403 years after he became the father of Eber. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
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\v 16 When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg.
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\v 17 Eber lived 430 years after he became the father of Peleg. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
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\v 18 When Peleg had lived thirty years, he became the father of Reu.
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\v 19 Peleg lived 209 years after he became the father of Reu. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
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\v 20 When Reu had lived thirty-two years, he became the father of Serug.
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\v 21 Reu lived 207 years after he became the father of Serug. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
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\v 22 When Serug had lived thirty years, he became the father of Nahor.
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\v 23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
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\v 24 When Nahor had live twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah.
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\v 25 Nahor lived 119 years after he became the father of Terah. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
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\v 26 After Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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\v 27 Now these were the descendants of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran became the father of Lot.
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\v 28 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
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\v 29 Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai and the name of Nahor's wife was Milkah, a daughter of Haran, who was the father of Milkah and Iskah.
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\v 30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.
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\v 31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of his son Haran, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and together they left Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan. But they came to Haran and stayed there.
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\v 32 Terah lived 205 years and then died in Haran.
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