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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.
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Genesis

GENESIS, the book of the origin or production of all things, consists of two parts: the first, comprehended in the first through eleventh chapters, gives a general history; the second, contained in the subsequent chapters, gives a special history. The two parts are essentially connected; the one, which sets out with an account of the descent of the human race from a single pair, the introduction of sin into the world, and the announcement of the scheme of divine mercy for repairing the ruins of the fall, was necessary to pave the way for relating the other, namely, the call of Abraham, and the selection of his posterity for carrying out the gracious purpose of God. An evident unity of method, therefore, pervades this book, and the information contained in it was of the greatest importance to the Hebrew people, as without it they could not have understood the frequent references made in their law to the purposes and promises of God regarding themselves. The arguments that have been already adduced as establishing the Mosaic origin of the Pentateuch prove of course that Moses was the author of Genesis. The few passages on which the rationalists grounded their assertions that it was the composition of a later age have been successfully shown to warrant no such conclusion; the use of Egyptian words and the minute acquaintance with Egyptian life and manners, displayed in the history of Joseph, harmonize with the education of Moses, and whether he received his information by immediate revelation, from tradition, or from written documents, it comes to us as the authentic work of an author who wrote as he was inspired by the Holy Ghost (II Peter 1:21).

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