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Genesis 11:8-10
Revised Standard Version
Genesis 11:8-10
Revised Standard Version
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused[a] the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
Descendants of Shem
10 These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was a hundred years old, he became the father of Arpach′shad two years after the flood;
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- Genesis 11:9 Compare Heb balal, confuse
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