11At one time, the whole Earth spoke the same language.H776H259H8193H259H1697 2It so happened that as they moved out of the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled down.H5265H6924H4672H1237H776H8152H3427 3They said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and fire them well." They used brick for stone and tar for mortar.H559H376H7453H3051H3835H3843H8313H8316H3843H68H2564H1961H2563 4Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower that reaches Heaven. Let's make ourselves famous so we won't be scattered here and there across the Earth."H559H3051H1129H5892H4026H7218H8064H6213H8034H6327H6440H776 5GOD came down to look over the city and the tower those people had built.H3068H3381H7200H5892H4026H1121H120H1129 6GOD took one look and said, "One people, one language; why, this is only a first step. No telling what they'll come up with next—they'll stop at nothing!H3068H559H5971H259H259H8193H2490H6213H3808H3605H1219H2161H6213 7Come, we'll go down and garble their speech so they won't understand each other."H3051H3381H1101H8193H834H8085H376H7453H8193 8Then GOD scattered them from there all over the world. And they had to quit building the city.H3068H6327H8033H6440H776H2308H1129H5892 9That's how it came to be called Babel, because there GOD turned their language into "babble." From there GOD scattered them all over the world.H8034H7121H894H3068H1101H8193H776H6327H3068H6327H6440H776 10This is the story of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he had Arphaxad. It was two years after the flood.H8435H8035H8035H3967H8141H1121H3205H775H8141H310H3999 11After he had Arphaxad, he lived 600 more years and had other sons and daughters.H8035H2421H310H3205H775H2568H3967H8141H3205H1121H1323 12When Arphaxad was thirty-five years old, he had Shelah.H775H2425H2568H7970H8141H3205H7974 13After Arphaxad had Shelah, he lived 403 more years and had other sons and daughters.H775H2421H310H3205H7974H702H3967H8141H7969H8141H3205H1121H1323 14When Shelah was thirty years old, he had Eber.H7974H2425H7970H8141H3205H5677 15After Shelah had Eber, he lived 403 more years and had other sons and daughters.H7974H2421H310H3205H5677H702H3967H8141H7969H8141H3205H1121H1323 16When Eber was thirty-four years old, he had Peleg.H5677H2421H702H7970H8141H3205H6389 17After Eber had Peleg, he lived 403 more years and had other sons and daughters.H5677H2421H310H3205H6389H702H3967H8141H7970H8141H3205H1121H1323 18When Peleg was thirty years old, he had Reu.H6389H2421H7970H8141H3205H7466 19After he had Reu, he lived 209 more years and had other sons and daughters.H6389H2421H310H3205H7466H3967H8141H8672H8141H3205H1121H1323 20When Reu was thirty-two years old, he had Serug.H7466H2421H8147H7970H8141H3205H8286 21After Reu had Serug, he lived 207 more years and had other sons and daughters.H7466H2421H310H3205H8286H3967H8141H7651H8141H3205H1121H1323 22When Serug was thirty years old, he had Nahor.H8286H2421H7970H8141H3205H5152 23After Serug had Nahor, he lived 200 more years and had other sons and daughters.H8286H2421H310H3205H5152H3967H8141H3205H1121H1323 24When Nahor was twenty-nine years old, he had Terah.H5152H2421H8672H6242H8141H3205H8646 25After Nahor had Terah, he lived 119 more years and had other sons and daughters.H5152H2421H310H3205H8646H3967H8141H6240H8672H8141H3205H1121H1323 26When Terah was seventy years old, he had Abram, Nahor, and Haran.H8646H2421H7657H8141H3205H87H5152H2039 27This is the story of Terah. Terah had Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran had Lot.H8435H8646H8646H3205H87H5152H2039H2039H3205H3876 28Haran died before his father, Terah, in the country of his family, Ur of the Chaldees.H2039H4191H6440H1H8646H776H4138H218H3778 29Abram and Nahor each got married. Abram's wife was Sarai; Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of his brother Haran. Haran had two daughters, Milcah and Iscah.H87H5152H3947H802H8034H87H802H8297H8034H5152H802H4435H1323H2039H1H4435H1H3252 30Sarai was barren; she had no children.H8297H6135H2056 31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and Sarai his daughter-in-law (his son Abram's wife) and set out with them from Ur of the Chaldees for the land of Canaan. But when they got as far as Haran, they settled down there.H8646H3947H87H1121H3876H1121H2039H1121H1121H8297H3618H1121H87H802H3318H218H3778H3212H776H3667H935H2771H3427 32Terah lived 205 years. He died in Haran.H3117H8646H3967H8141H2568H8141H8646H4191H2771
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