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Genesis, Chapter 11

¹ Now the whole earth^a Lit was one lipused the same language and^b Or few or one set of wordsthe same words. ² It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and^c Lit dweltsettled there. ³ They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. ⁴ They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” ⁵ The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. ⁶ The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have^d Lit one lipthe same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be^e Lit withheld fromimpossible for them. ⁷ Come, let Us go down and there confuse their^f Lit liplanguage, so that they will not understand one another’s^g Lit lipspeech.” ⁸ So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. ⁹ Therefore its name was called^h Or Babylon; cf Heb balal, confuseBabel, because there the LORD confused theⁱ Lit liplanguage of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.	2 Gen 10:10 Gen 14:1 Dan 1:2 3 Gen 14:10 4 Deu 1:28 Deu 9:1 Psa 107:26 Gen 6:4 Sa2 8:13 Deu 4:27 5 Gen 18:21 Exo 3:8 Exo 19:11 Exo 19:18 Exo 19:20 6 Gen 11:1 7 Gen 1:26 Gen 42:23 Exo 4:11 Deu 28:49 Isa 33:19 Jer 5:15 8 Gen 11:4 Psa 92:9 Luk 1:51 9 Gen 10:10
¹⁰ These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and^j Lit begot, and so throughout the chbecame the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood; ¹¹ and Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters.	10 Gen 10:22-25
¹² Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah; ¹³ and Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters.
¹⁴ Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber; ¹⁵ and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and he had other sons and daughters.
¹⁶ Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg; ¹⁷ and Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and he had other sons and daughters.
¹⁸ Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu; ¹⁹ and Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and he had other sons and daughters.
²⁰ Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug; ²¹ and Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and he had other sons and daughters.
²² Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor; ²³ and Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and he had other sons and daughters.
²⁴ Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah; ²⁵ and Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and he had other sons and daughters.	24 Jos 24:2
²⁶ Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.	26 Jos 24:2
²⁷ Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot. ²⁸ Haran died^k Or during the lifetime ofin the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. ²⁹ Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah^l Lit and the father ofand Iscah. ³⁰ Sarai was barren; she had no child.	27 Gen 11:31 Gen 12:4 Gen 13:10 Gen 14:12 Gen 19:1 Gen 19:29 28 Gen 11:31 29 Gen 24:10 Gen 17:15 Gen 20:12 Gen 22:20 Gen 22:23 Gen 24:15 30 Gen 16:1
³¹ Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out^m Lit with themtogether from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, andⁿ Lit dweltsettled there. ³² The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.	31 Gen 15:7 Neh 9:7 Act 7:4


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