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Genesis - ch 11 v 1 - 20
- And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,
- and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;
- 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.
- 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.'
- And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;
- 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.
- Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'
- And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
- 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.
- These `are' births of Shem: Shem `is' a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge.
- And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
- And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah.
- And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
- And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber.
- And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
- And Eber liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg.
- And Eber liveth after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
- And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu.
- And Peleg liveth after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
- And Reu liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug.
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