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Today's Bible Reading :: Genesis 8 - 11 (ESV)

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Genesis 8

The Flood Subsides

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:1 - But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2 - The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:3 - and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4 - and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5 - And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:6 - At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:7 - and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:8 - Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 - But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:10 - He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12 - Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14 - In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:15 - Then God said to Noah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:16 - “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17 - Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:18 - So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:19 - Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.

God’s Covenant with Noah

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:20 - Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse[fn] the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:22 - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
ESV Footnotes
Or dishonor

Genesis 9

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:1 - And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:3 - Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:4 - But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:5 - And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:6 - “Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
for God made man in his own image.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:7 - And you,[fn] be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:8 - Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:9 - “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:10 - and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:11 - I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:12 - And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:13 - I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:14 - When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:15 - I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:16 - When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:17 - God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Noah’s Descendants

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:18 - The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:19 - These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:20 - Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:21 - He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:22 - And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:23 - Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:24 - When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:25 - he said,
“Cursed be Canaan;
a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:26 - He also said,
“Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem;
and let Canaan be his servant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:27 - May God enlarge Japheth,[fn]
and let him dwell in the tents of Shem,
and let Canaan be his servant.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:28 - After the flood Noah lived 350 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:29 - All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.
ESV Footnotes
In Hebrew you is plural
Or from these the whole earth was populated
Or Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard
Japheth sounds like the Hebrew for enlarge

Genesis 10

Nations Descended from Noah

(1Ch 1:5–27 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:1 - These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:2 - The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:3 - The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:4 - The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:5 - From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6 - The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:7 - The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8 - Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:9 - He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:10 - The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:11 - From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:12 - Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:13 - Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:14 - Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom[fn] the Philistines came), and Caphtorim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:15 - Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:16 - and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:17 - the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:18 - the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:19 - And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:20 - These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:21 - To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth,[fn] children were born.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:22 - The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:23 - The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:24 - Arpachshad fathered Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:25 - To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg,[fn] for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:26 - Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:27 - Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:28 - Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:29 - Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:30 - The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:31 - These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 - These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
ESV Footnotes
Or he began to be a mighty man on the earth
Or from where
Or the brother of Japheth the elder
Peleg means division

Genesis 11

The Tower of Babel

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:1 - Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:2 - And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5 - And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6 - And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:9 - Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused[fn] the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

Shem’s Descendants

(1Ch 1:17–27; Luk 3:34–36 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:10 - These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:11 - And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:12 - When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:13 - And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:14 - When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:15 - And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:16 - When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:17 - And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:18 - When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:19 - And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:20 - When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:21 - And Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:22 - When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:23 - And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:24 - When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:25 - And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:26 - When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Terah’s Descendants

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27 - Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:28 - Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29 - And Abram and Nahor took 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 Iscah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:30 - Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:32 - The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.
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Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused
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