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Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
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and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.
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Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
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But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
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So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it?
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The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
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what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
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Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
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Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.
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The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
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So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
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With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
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When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them.
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Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
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to Abraham as his property in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of the city.
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He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz.
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After Jacob came from Paddan Aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in Canaan and camped within sight of the city.
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So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to the men of their city.
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All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.
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Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male.
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The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where their sister had been defiled.
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They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields.
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Bela son of Beor became king of Edom. His city was named Dinhabah.
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When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king. His city was named Avith.
