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And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words, |
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and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there; |
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and they say each one to his neighbour, `Give help, let us make bricks, and burn `them' thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar. |
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And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.' |
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And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded; |
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and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people `is' one, and one pronunciation `is' to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do. |
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Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.' |
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And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city; |
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therefore hath `one' called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth. |
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These `are' births of Shem: Shem `is' a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge. |
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And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters. |
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And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah. |
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And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters. |
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And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber. |
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And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters. |
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And Eber liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg. |
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And Eber liveth after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters. |
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And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu. |
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And Peleg liveth after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begetteth sons and daughters. |
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And Reu liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug. |
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And Reu liveth after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters. |
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And Serug liveth thirty years, and begetteth Nahor. |
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And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters. |
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And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah. |
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And Nahor liveth after his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters. |
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And Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth Abram, Nahor, and Haran. |
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And these `are' births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot; |
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and Haran dieth in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. |
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And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife `is' Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife `is' Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah. |
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And Sarai is barren -- she hath no child. |
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And Terah taketh Abram his son, and Lot, son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come unto Charan, and dwell there. |
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And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan. |