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1 - And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,

2 - and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;

3 - and they say each one to his neighbour, `Give help, let us make bricks, and burn <FI>them<Fi> thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar.

4 - 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.'

5 - And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

6 - and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people <FI>is<Fi> one, and one pronunciation <FI>is<Fi> 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.

7 - Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

8 - And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;

9 - therefore hath <FI>one<Fi> 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.

10 - These <FI>are<Fi> births of Shem: Shem <FI>is<Fi> a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge.

11 - And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

12 - And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah.

13 - And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

14 - And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber.

15 - And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

16 - And Eber liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg.

17 - And Eber liveth after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

18 - And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu.

19 - And Peleg liveth after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

20 - And Reu liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug.

21 - And Reu liveth after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

22 - And Serug liveth thirty years, and begetteth Nahor.

23 - And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

24 - And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah.

25 - And Nahor liveth after his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

26 - And Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 - And these <FI>are<Fi> births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot;

28 - and Haran dieth in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

29 - And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife <FI>is<Fi> Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife <FI>is<Fi> Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah.

30 - And Sarai is barren--she hath no child.

31 - 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.

32 - And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan.