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Chapter 11
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And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
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Study Questions (vs. 1-32) - |
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And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they
dwelt there. |
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And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick,
and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone,
and slime had they for mortar. |
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And 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. |
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And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower,
which the children of men builded. |
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And 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. |
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Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language,
that they may not understand one another's speech. |
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So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the
face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. |
9
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Therefore 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. |
10
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These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred
years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: |
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And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters. |
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And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: |
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And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred
and three years, and begat sons and daughters. |
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And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: |
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And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and
three years, and begat sons and daughters. |
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And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: |
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And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. |
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And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: |
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And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine
years, and begat sons and daughters. |
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And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: |
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And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven
years, and begat sons and daughters. |
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And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: |
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And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters. |
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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: |
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And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen
years, and begat sons and daughters. |
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And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor,
and Haran. |
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Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. |
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And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of
his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. |
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And 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. |
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But Sarai was barren; she had no child. |
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And 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. |
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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years:
and Terah died in Haran. |
