1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

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Acts 2:6, Acts 2:6, Zephaniah 3:9, Zephaniah 3:9, Isaiah 19:18

2It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

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Genesis 10:10, Genesis 10:10, Daniel 1:2, Daniel 1:2, Genesis 14:1

3They said one to another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

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Genesis 14:10, Genesis 14:10, Exodus 1:14, Exodus 2:3, Exodus 1:14

4They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

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Deuteronomy 1:28, Deuteronomy 1:28, John 5:44, John 5:44, Luke 1:51

5The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

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Genesis 18:21, Genesis 18:21, Psalms 33:13, Psalms 33:14, John 3:13

6The Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

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Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:4, Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:4, Genesis 3:22

7Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

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Psalms 33:10, Psalms 33:10, Psalms 55:9, Psalms 55:9, Job 5:12

8So the Lord scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

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Luke 1:51, Luke 1:51, Deuteronomy 32:8, Deuteronomy 32:8, Genesis 10:25

9Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. From there, the Lord scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

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Genesis 10:10, Genesis 10:10, Genesis 10:5, Genesis 10:20, Genesis 10:5

10This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

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1 Chronicles 1:17, 1 Chronicles 1:27, 1 Chronicles 1:17, 1 Chronicles 1:27, Genesis 11:27

11Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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Genesis 9:7, Genesis 9:7, Psalms 127:3, Psalms 127:4, Psalms 128:3

12Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.

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Luke 3:36, Luke 3:36

13Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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14Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:

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15and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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16Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.

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1 Chronicles 1:19, Genesis 10:21, Genesis 10:25, Numbers 24:24, Luke 3:35

17Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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18Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.

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Luke 3:35, Luke 3:35

19Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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20Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.

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Luke 3:35, Luke 3:35

21Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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22Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.

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Joshua 24:2, Joshua 24:2

23Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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24Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

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Luke 3:34, Luke 3:34, Joshua 24:2, Joshua 24:2

25Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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26Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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Joshua 24:2, Joshua 24:2, 1 Chronicles 1:26, 1 Chronicles 1:27, 1 Chronicles 1:26

27Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

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Genesis 12:4, Genesis 11:31, Genesis 14:12, Genesis 12:4, Genesis 11:31

28Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

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Genesis 15:7, Genesis 15:7, Genesis 11:31, Acts 7:2, Acts 7:4

29Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.

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Genesis 22:20, Genesis 17:15, Genesis 22:20, Genesis 17:15, Genesis 24:15

30Sarai was barren. She had no child.

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1 Samuel 1:2, Genesis 21:1, Genesis 21:2, Luke 1:36, Genesis 29:31

31Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

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Nehemiah 9:7, Nehemiah 9:7, Acts 7:2, Acts 7:4, Acts 7:2

32The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.

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