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And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

      ⁹ He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah: wherefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah.

      ¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

      ¹¹ Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

      ¹² and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).

      ¹³ And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

      ¹⁴ and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (whence went forth the Philistines), and Caphtorim.

      ¹⁵ And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth,

      ¹⁶ and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

      ¹⁷ and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

      ¹⁸ and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.

      ¹⁹ And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha.

      ²⁰ These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.

      ²¹ And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.

      ²² The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.

      ²³ And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

      ²⁴ And Arpachshad begat Shelah; and Shelah begat Eber.

      ²⁵ And unto Eber were born two sons: The name of the one was Peleg. For in his days was the earth divided. And his brother's name was Joktan.

      ²⁶ And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

      ²⁷ and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

      ²⁸ and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

      ²⁹ and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

      ³⁰ And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

      ³¹ These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

      ³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

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      ¹ And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

      ² And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

      ³ And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

      ⁴ And they said, Come, 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.

      ⁵ And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

      ⁶ And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.

      ⁷ Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

      ⁸ So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.

      ⁹ Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

      ¹⁰ These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood.

      ¹¹ and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

      ¹² And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelah.

      ¹³ and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

      ¹⁴ And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

      ¹⁵ and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

      ¹⁶ And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

      ¹⁷ and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

      ¹⁸ And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

      ¹⁹ and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

      ²⁰ And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

      ²¹ and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

      ²² And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

      ²³ and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

      ²⁴ And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

      ²⁵ and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

      ²⁶ And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

      ²⁷ Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begat Lot.

      ²⁸ And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

      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.

      ³⁰ And Sarai was barren; She had no child.

      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.

      ³² And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

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      ¹ Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee:

      ² and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make they name great; and be thou a blessing;

      ³ and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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