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Genesis Chapter 11

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In Genesis 11 the people of Babel construct a great tower that reaches toward the heavens, and God becomes displeased with their ambition. He confuses their languages, causing them to scatter across the earth, which marks the beginning of human dispersion.

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(1) And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
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Isaiah 19:18Zephaniah 3:9Acts 2:6

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Nehemiah 13:24

(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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Genesis 13:11Genesis 11:9Genesis 10:10Genesis 14:1Isaiah 11:11Daniel 1:2Zechariah 5:11

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Joshua 12:3Genesis 13:11Ezekiel 47:18

(3) And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
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Genesis 11:4Genesis 11:7Psalms 64:5Proverbs 1:11Ecclesiastes 2:1Isaiah 5:5Isaiah 41:6Isaiah 41:7James 4:13James 5:1Hebrews 3:13Hebrews 10:24

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Isaiah 28:16Exodus 1:14

(4) And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
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Deuteronomy 1:28Deuteronomy 9:1Daniel 4:11Daniel 4:22II Samuel 8:13Psalms 49:11Psalms 49:12Psalms 49:13Proverbs 10:7Daniel 4:30John 5:44Genesis 11:8

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Deuteronomy 29:18I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19Leviticus 10:6Genesis 11:8Judges 9:51

(5) And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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Genesis 18:21Exodus 19:11Psalms 11:4Psalms 33:13Psalms 33:14Jeremiah 23:23Jeremiah 23:24John 3:13Hebrews 4:13

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Nehemiah 3:1

(6) And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
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Genesis 3:22Judges 10:14I Kings 18:27Ecclesiastes 11:9Genesis 11:1Genesis 9:19Acts 17:26Genesis 6:5Genesis 8:21Psalms 2:1Psalms 2:2Psalms 2:3

(7) Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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Genesis 11:5Genesis 1:26Genesis 3:22Isaiah 6:8Job 5:12Job 5:13Job 12:20Psalms 2:4Psalms 33:10Acts 2:4Acts 2:5Acts 2:6

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Nehemiah 13:24Ezekiel 3:6II Kings 18:26Isaiah 36:11

(8) So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
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Genesis 11:4Genesis 11:9Genesis 49:7Deuteronomy 32:8Luke 1:51Genesis 10:25Genesis 10:32

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Genesis 11:4

(9) Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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Genesis 10:5Genesis 10:10Genesis 10:20Genesis 10:31Isaiah 13:1Isaiah 13:2Isaiah 13:3Isaiah 13:4Isaiah 13:5Isaiah 13:6Isaiah 13:7Isaiah 13:8

(10) These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
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Genesis 11:27Genesis 10:21Genesis 10:22I Chronicles 1:17I Chronicles 1:18I Chronicles 1:19I Chronicles 1:20I Chronicles 1:21I Chronicles 1:22I Chronicles 1:23I Chronicles 1:24I Chronicles 1:25

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Genesis 11:11Genesis 10:1Matthew 1:17Genesis 11:27Genesis 4:18Genesis 5:32

(11) And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 5:4Genesis 5:5Genesis 5:6Genesis 5:7Genesis 5:8Genesis 5:9Genesis 5:10Genesis 5:11Genesis 5:12Genesis 5:13Genesis 5:14Genesis 5:15

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Genesis 5:30Genesis 11:13Genesis 4:18Genesis 5:7Genesis 5:10Genesis 5:13

(12) And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
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Luke 3:36

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Genesis 5:30Genesis 10:24Genesis 11:11Genesis 11:13Genesis 5:16Genesis 11:14

(13) And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:15Genesis 11:17Genesis 10:24Genesis 11:11Genesis 4:18Genesis 5:7

(14) And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
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Genesis 10:24Genesis 11:15Genesis 11:17Genesis 5:16Genesis 11:12Genesis 11:13

(15) And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:13Genesis 11:17Genesis 10:24Genesis 4:18Genesis 5:7Genesis 5:10

(16) And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
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Genesis 10:21Genesis 10:25Numbers 24:24I Chronicles 1:19Luke 3:35

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Genesis 11:17Genesis 11:15Genesis 11:13Ezekiel 48:16Genesis 5:16Genesis 11:14

(17) And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:15Genesis 11:13Genesis 11:16Genesis 5:16Genesis 11:19Genesis 4:18

(18) And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
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Luke 3:35

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Genesis 11:17Genesis 11:19Genesis 5:16Genesis 11:16Genesis 11:20Genesis 11:21

(19) And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:17Genesis 11:21Genesis 4:18Genesis 5:7Genesis 5:10Genesis 5:13

(20) And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
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Luke 3:35

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Genesis 11:21Genesis 5:16Genesis 11:17Genesis 11:18Genesis 11:19Genesis 11:22

(21) And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:19Genesis 11:23Genesis 4:18Genesis 5:7Genesis 5:10Genesis 5:13

(22) And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
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Joshua 24:2

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Genesis 11:23Genesis 5:16Genesis 11:17Genesis 11:20Genesis 11:21Genesis 11:25

(23) And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:21Genesis 11:25Genesis 4:18Genesis 5:7Genesis 5:10Genesis 5:13

(24) And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
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Luke 3:34

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Genesis 11:25Genesis 11:27Genesis 11:19Genesis 11:23Genesis 11:26II Chronicles 2:10

(25) And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
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(26) And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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Genesis 12:4Genesis 12:5Genesis 22:20Genesis 22:21Genesis 22:22Genesis 22:23Genesis 22:24Genesis 29:4Genesis 29:5Joshua 24:2I Chronicles 1:26I Chronicles 1:27

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Genesis 11:27Genesis 11:25Genesis 11:23Genesis 11:24Genesis 12:4Genesis 11:31

(27) Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
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Genesis 11:31Genesis 12:4Genesis 13:1Genesis 13:2Genesis 13:3Genesis 13:4Genesis 13:5Genesis 13:6Genesis 13:7Genesis 13:8Genesis 13:9Genesis 13:10

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(28) And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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Genesis 15:7Nehemiah 9:7Acts 7:2Acts 7:3Acts 7:4

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(29) And Abram and Nahor took them 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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Genesis 17:15Genesis 20:12Genesis 22:20Genesis 24:15

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(30) But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
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Genesis 15:2Genesis 15:3Genesis 16:1Genesis 16:2Genesis 18:11Genesis 18:12Genesis 21:1Genesis 21:2Genesis 25:21Genesis 29:31Genesis 30:1Genesis 30:2

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(31) And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
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Genesis 11:26Genesis 11:27Genesis 12:1Genesis 11:28Joshua 24:2Joshua 24:3Hebrews 11:8Nehemiah 9:7Acts 7:2Acts 7:3Acts 7:4Genesis 10:19

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(32) And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
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Genesis 11:27Genesis 11:28Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Genesis 11:31Genesis 18:28

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