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Genesis Chapter 11

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GENESIS

Genesis 11

1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
Acts 2:6, Acts 2:6, Zephaniah 3:9, Zephaniah 3:9, Isaiah 19:18
2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Genesis 10:10, Genesis 10:10, Daniel 1:2, Daniel 1:2, Genesis 14:1
3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Genesis 14:10, Genesis 14:10, Exodus 1:14, Exodus 2:3, Exodus 1:14
4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Deuteronomy 1:28, Deuteronomy 1:28, John 5:44, John 5:44, Luke 1:51
5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Genesis 18:21, Genesis 18:21, Psalms 33:13, Psalms 33:14, John 3:13
6And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:4, Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:4, Genesis 3:22
7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Psalms 33:10, Psalms 33:10, Psalms 55:9, Psalms 55:9, Job 5:12
8So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Luke 1:51, Luke 1:51, Deuteronomy 32:8, Deuteronomy 32:8, Genesis 10:25
9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 10:10, Genesis 10:10, Genesis 10:5, Genesis 10:20, Genesis 10:5
10These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
1 Chronicles 1:17, 1 Chronicles 1:27, 1 Chronicles 1:17, 1 Chronicles 1:27, Genesis 11:27
11And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 9:7, Genesis 9:7, Psalms 127:3, Psalms 127:4, Psalms 128:3
12And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
Luke 3:36, Luke 3:36
13And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
14And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
15And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
16And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
1 Chronicles 1:19, Genesis 10:21, Genesis 10:25, Numbers 24:24, Luke 3:35
17And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
18And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
Luke 3:35, Luke 3:35
19And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
20And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
Luke 3:35, Luke 3:35
21And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
22And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
Joshua 24:2, Joshua 24:2
23And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
24And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
Luke 3:34, Luke 3:34, Joshua 24:2, Joshua 24:2
25And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
26And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Joshua 24:2, Joshua 24:2, 1 Chronicles 1:26, 1 Chronicles 1:27, 1 Chronicles 1:26
27Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
Genesis 12:4, Genesis 11:31, Genesis 14:12, Genesis 12:4, Genesis 11:31
28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
Genesis 15:7, Genesis 15:7, Genesis 11:31, Acts 7:2, Acts 7:4
29And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Genesis 22:20, Genesis 17:15, Genesis 22:20, Genesis 17:15, Genesis 24:15
30But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
1 Samuel 1:2, Genesis 21:1, Genesis 21:2, Luke 1:36, Genesis 29:31
31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Nehemiah 9:7, Nehemiah 9:7, Acts 7:2, Acts 7:4, Acts 7:2
32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

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