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The building of Babel.

¶ And Canaan begat † Sidon his firtborn, and Heth,

And the Jebuite, and the Amorite, and the Girgaite,

And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites pread abroad.

And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comet to Gerar, unto † Gaza; as thou goet, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Laha.

Thee are the ons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

¶ Unto Shem alo, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

The children of Shem; Elam, and Ashur, and † Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mah.

And Arphaxad begat † Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

And unto Eber were born two ons: the name of one was ‖ Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

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

And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all thee were the ons of Joktan.

And their dwelling was from Meha, as thou goet unto Sephar a mount of the eat.

Thee are the ons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

Thee are the families of the ons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by thee were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

1 One language in the world. 3 The building of Babel interrupted by the confuion of tongues. 10 The generations of Shem, 27 and of Terah the father of Abram. 31 Terah goeth from Ur to Haran, and dieth there.

the whole earth was of one † language, and of one † peech.

And it came to pas, as they journeyed ‖ from the eat, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

¶ And † they aid one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and † burn them throughly [sic]. And they had brick for tone, and lime had they for morter [sic].

And they aid, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whoe top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, let we be cattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

And the came down to ee the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

And the aid, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be retrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not undertand one another's peech.

So the cattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Therefore is the name of it called ‖ Babel; becaue the did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the  catter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

¶ Thee are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat ons and daughters.

And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat ons and daughters.

And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat ons and daughters.

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

And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat ons and daughters.

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat ons and daughters.

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

And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and even years, and begat ons and daughters.

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: