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The firſt Monarch. the LORD: wherefore it is ſaide, Euen as Nimrod the mightie hunter before the LORD.

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

Out of that land ‖ went forth Aſſhur, and builded Nineueh, and the ‖ citie Rehoboth, and Calah,

And Reſen betweene Nineueh and Calah: the ſame is a great citie.

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

And Pathruſim, and Caſluhim, (out of whom came Philiſtim,) and Caphtorim.

¶ And Canaan begate † Sidon his firſt borne, and Heth,

And the Iebuſite, and the Emorite, and the Girgaſite,

And the Hiuite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

And the Aruadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites ſpread abroad.

And the border of the Canaanites, was from Sidon, as thou commeſt to Gerar, vnto † Gaza, as thou goeſt vnto Sodoma and Gomorah, and Admah, ⁊ Zeboim, euen vnto Laſha.

Theſe are the ſonnes of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

¶ Vnto Shem alſo the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Iaphet the elder, euen to him were children borne.

The * children of Shem: Elam, and Aſſhur, and † Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

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

And Arphaxad begate † Salah, and Salah begate Eber.


 * And vnto Eber were borne two ſonnes: the name of one was Peleg, for in his dayes was the earth diuided, and his brothers name was Ioktan.

And Ioktan begate Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaueth, and Ierah,

And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

And Ophir, and Hauilah, ⁊ Iobab: all theſe were the ſonnes of Ioktan.

And their dwelling was from Meſha, as thou goeſt vnto Sephar, a mount of the Easſt.

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

Theſe are the families of the ſonnes of Noah after their generations, in their nations: and by theſe were the nations diuided in the earth after the Flood.

Nd * the whole earth was of one † language, and of one † ſpeach.

And it came to paſſe as they iourneyed from the Eaſt, that they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

And † they ſayd one to another; Goe to, let vs make bricke, and † burne them thorowly, And they had bricke for ſtone, and ſlime had they for morter.

And they ſaid; Goe to, let vs build vs a city and a tower, whoſe top may reach vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, leſt we be ſcattered abroad vpon the face of the whole earth.

And the LORD came downe to ſee the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

And the LORD ſaid; Behold, the people is one, and they haue all one language: and this they begin to doe: and now nothing will be reſtrained from them, which they haue imagined to doe.

Gote to, let vs go downe, and there cõfound their language, that they may not vnderſtand one anothers ſpeech.

So the LORD ſcattered them abroad from thence, vpon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the Citie.

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 vpon the face of all the earth.

¶ * Theſe are the generations of Shem. Shem was an hundred yeres old, and