Genesis
Genesis 11
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Genesis 11 — Scripture text (King James Version)
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of ; and they dwelt there. And 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. 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. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 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. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called ; 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. These are the generations of : was an hundred years old, and begat two years after : And lived after he begat five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And lived five and thirty years, and begat : And lived after he begat four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. And lived thirty years, and begat : And lived after he begat four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. And lived four and thirty years, and begat : And lived after he begat four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. And lived thirty years, and begat : And lived after he begat two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. And lived two and thirty years, and begat : And lived after he begat two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. And lived thirty years, and begat : And lived after he begat two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And lived nine and twenty years, and begat : And lived after he begat an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. And lived seventy years, and begat , Nahor, and . Now these are the generations of : begat , Nahor, and ; and begat . And died before his father in the land of his nativity, in . And and took them wives: the name of ’s wife was ; and the name of ’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of , the father of , and the father of . But was barren; she had no child. And took his son, and the son of his son’s son, and his daughter in law, his son ’s wife; and they went forth with them from , to go into the ; and they came unto , and dwelt there. And the days of were two hundred and five years: and died in .