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The whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 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 free of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the

children of men builded. And the Lord said, Go to, let us go own and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them broad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

The men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: for we will destroy his place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord, and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it. And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy two daughters, lest thou be consumed. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him; and she became a pillar of salt.

And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife