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Genesis 11 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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The Tower of Babel

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Now the whole earth [fn]had the same language and [fn]the same words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:2 - And it happened as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and [fn]settled there.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5 - Then Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6 - And Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have [fn]the same language. And this is what they have begun to do. So now nothing which they purpose to do will be [fn]impossible for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their [fn]language, so that they will not understand one another’s [fn]language.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:9 - Therefore its name was called [fn]Babel, because there Yahweh confused the [fn]language of the whole earth; and from there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

The Generations of Shem

(1Ch 1:17–27; Luk 3:34–36 )

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These are the generations of Shem. Shem was 100 years old and [fn]became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:11 - and Shem lived 500 years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

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And Arpachshad lived 35 years and became the father of Shelah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:13 - and Arpachshad lived 403 years after he became the father of Shelah, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

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And Shelah lived 30 years and became the father of Eber;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:15 - and Shelah lived 403 years after he became the father of Eber, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

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And Eber lived 34 years and became the father of Peleg;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:17 - and Eber lived 430 years after he became the father of Peleg, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

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And Peleg lived 30 years and became the father of Reu;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:19 - and Peleg lived 209 years after he became the father of Reu, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

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And Reu lived 32 years and became the father of Serug;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:21 - and Reu lived 207 years after he became the father of Serug, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

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And Serug lived 30 years and became the father of Nahor;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:23 - and Serug lived 200 years after he became the father of Nahor, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

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Nahor lived 29 years and became the father of Terah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:25 - and Nahor lived 119 years after he became the father of Terah, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

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And Terah lived 70 years and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

The Generations of Terah

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Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:28 - And Haran died [fn]in the presence of Terah his father in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29 - Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.

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And 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 out [fn]together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and [fn]settled there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:32 - And the days of Terah were 205 years; and Terah died in Haran.
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Lit withheld from
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Or Babylon
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Lit begot, so in ch
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Lit with them
Lit dwelt
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