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The Tower of Babel

1 Now the whole earth had one language and one1 speech.  
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land aof Shinar, and they dwelt there.  
3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and1 bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.  
4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower awhose top is in the heavens; let us make a bname for ourselves, lest we cbe scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”  
5 aBut the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.  
6 And the Lord said, “Indeed athe people are one and they all have bone language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they cpropose to do will be withheld from them.  
7 Come, alet Us go down and there bconfuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”  
8 So athe Lord scattered them abroad from there bover the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.  
9 Therefore its name is called1 Babel, abecause there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.  

Shem’s Descendants

10 aThis is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.  
11 After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
12 Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, aand begot Salah.  
13 After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
14 Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
15 After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
16 aEber lived thirty-four years, and begot bPeleg.  
17 After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
18 Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
19 After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot aSerug.  
21 After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
22 Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
23 After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot aTerah.  
25 After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
26 Now Terah lived seventy years, and abegot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.  

Terah’s Descendants

27 This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot aAbram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot.  
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29 Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was aSarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, bMilcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.  
30 Buta Sarai was barren; she had no child.  
31 And Terah atook his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from bUr of the Chaldeans to go to cthe land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.  
32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
Verse Comparison: Genesis 11:1

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American Standard Version
And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

Amplified® Bible
AND THE whole earth was of one language and of one accent {and} mode of expression.

Contemporary English Version
At first everyone spoke the same language,

Darby English Version
And the whole earth had one language, and the same words.

Good News Bible
At first, the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words.

King James Version
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

New American Standard Bible
Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.

New International Version
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

New King James Version
Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.

Revised Standard Version
Now the whole earth had one language and few words.

Young's Literal Translation
And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,


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