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Genesis 11 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:2 - And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5 - But the LORD 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 the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:9 - Therefore its name is called Babel, because 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
(1 Chr. 1:17–27; Luke 3:34–36 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:10 - This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:11 - After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:12 - Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:13 - After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:14 - Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:15 - After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:16 - Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:17 - After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:18 - Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:19 - After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:20 - Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:21 - After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:22 - Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:23 - After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:24 - Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:25 - After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:26 - Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Terah’s Descendants

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27 - This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29 - Then 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 the father of Iscah.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - And Terah took 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 Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:32 - So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
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