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Genesis 11

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  1. 1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.8 cross-references: Acts 2:6, Zephaniah 3:9, Isaiah 19:18
  2. 2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.13 cross-references: Genesis 10:10, Daniel 1:2, Genesis 14:1, Zechariah 5:11, Isaiah 11:11
  3. 3And 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.26 cross-references: Genesis 14:10, Exodus 1:14, Exodus 2:3, Hebrews 3:13, 2 Samuel 12:31
  4. 4And 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.32 cross-references: Deuteronomy 1:28, John 5:44, Luke 1:51, Proverbs 10:7, Deuteronomy 9:1
  5. 5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.21 cross-references: Genesis 18:21, Psalms 33:13–14, John 3:13, Hebrews 4:13, Exodus 19:11
  6. 6And 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.18 cross-references: Psalms 2:1–4, Genesis 3:22, Genesis 11:1, Ecclesiastes 11:9, Luke 1:51
  7. 7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.32 cross-references: Psalms 33:10, Psalms 55:9, Job 5:12–13, Genesis 1:26, Acts 2:4–11
  8. 8So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.9 cross-references: Luke 1:51, Deuteronomy 32:8, Genesis 10:25, Genesis 10:32, Genesis 11:9
  9. 9Therefore 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.18 cross-references: Genesis 10:10, Genesis 10:5, Genesis 10:20, Acts 17:26, 1 Corinthians 14:23
  10. 10These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:9 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 1:17–27, Genesis 11:27, Luke 3:34–36, Genesis 10:21–22
  11. 11And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.8 cross-references: Genesis 9:7, Psalms 127:3–4, Psalms 128:3–4, Genesis 1:28, Psalms 144:12
  12. 12And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:5 cross-references: Luke 3:36
  13. 13And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
  14. 14And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
  15. 15And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
  16. 16And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:7 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 1:19, Genesis 10:21, Genesis 10:25, Numbers 24:24, Luke 3:35
  17. 17And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
  18. 18And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:1 cross-reference: Luke 3:35
  19. 19And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
  20. 20And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:2 cross-references: Luke 3:35
  21. 21And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
  22. 22And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:1 cross-reference: Joshua 24:2
  23. 23And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
  24. 24And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:5 cross-references: Luke 3:34, Joshua 24:2
  25. 25And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
  26. 26And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.8 cross-references: Joshua 24:2, 1 Chronicles 1:26–27, Genesis 12:4–5, Genesis 22:20–24, Genesis 29:4–5
  27. 27Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.13 cross-references: Genesis 12:4, Genesis 11:31, Genesis 14:12, 2 Peter 2:7, Genesis 13:1–11
  28. 28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.7 cross-references: Genesis 15:7, Genesis 11:31, Acts 7:2–4, Nehemiah 9:7
  29. 29And 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.11 cross-references: Genesis 22:20, Genesis 17:15, Genesis 24:15, Genesis 20:12
  30. 30But Sarai was barren; she had no child.14 cross-references: 1 Samuel 1:2, Genesis 21:1–2, Luke 1:36, Genesis 29:31, Genesis 15:2–3
  31. 31And 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.35 cross-references: Nehemiah 9:7, Acts 7:2–4, Genesis 12:4, Genesis 24:10, Joshua 24:2–3
  32. 32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

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Terah, Haran, God, Arphaxad, Salah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Abraham, Nahor, Sarah, Shem, Lot, Milcah, Iscah

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Ur of the Chaldees, Haran, Shinar, Babel, Canaan

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