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And all the world was of one tongue and one language.
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And as they came from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sinear, and there they dwelled.
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And they said one to another: come on, let us make brick and burn it with fire. So brick was their stone and slime was their mortar.
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And they said: Come on, let us build us a city and a tower, that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name, for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth.
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And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of Adam had builded.
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And the LORD said: See, the people is one and have one tongue among them all: And this have they begun to do, and will not leave off from all that they have purposed to do.
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Come on, let us descend and mingle their tongue even there, that one understand not what another sayeth.
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Thus the LORD scattered them from thence upon all the earth. And they left off to build the city.
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Wherefore the name of it is called Babel, because that the LORD {LORDE} there confounded the tongue of all the world. And because that the LORD from thence, scattered them abroad upon all the earth.
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¶ These are the generations of Sem: Sem was an hundred year old and begat Arphachsad two year after the flood.
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And Sem lived after he had begot Arphachsad five hundred year and begat sons and daughters.
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¶ And Arphachsad lived thirty five year and begat Sala, *
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and lived after he had begot Sala four hundred year and three and begat sons and daughters. *
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And Sala was thirty year old and begat Eber,
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and lived after he had begot Eber four hundred and three year, and begat sons and daughters.
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When Eber was thirty four year old, he begat Peleg,
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and lived after he had begot Peleg, four hundred and thirty year, and begat sons and daughters.
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¶ And Peleg when he was thirty year old begat Regu,
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and lived after he had begot Regu two hundred and nine year, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Regu when he had lived thirty two year begat Serug,
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and lived after he had begot Serug two hundred and seven year, and begat sons and daughters.
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¶ And when Serug was thirty year old, he begat Nahor,
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and lived after he had begot Nahot two hundred year, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Nahor when he was twenty nine year old, begat Terah,
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and lived after he had begot Terah, an hundred and nineteen year, and begat sons and daughters.
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¶ And when Terah was seventy year old, he begat Abram, Nahor and Haran.
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¶ And these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran begat Lot.
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And Haran died before Terah his father in the land where he was born, at Ur in Chaldea.
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And Abram and Nahor took them wives. Abram's wife was called Sarai. And Nahor's wife Milkah the daughter of Haran which was father of Milca and of Iisca.
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But Sarai was barren and had no child.
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¶ Then took Terah Abram his son and Lot his son Haran's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law his son Abram's wife. And they went with him from Ur in Chaldea, to go into the land of Chanaan. And they came to Haran and dwelled there.
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And when Terah was two hundred year old and five he died in Haran.