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Genesis 11:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Genesis 11:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Tower of Babel
11 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as they migrated from the east,[a] they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.(A) 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone and bitumen for mortar.
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- 11.2 Or migrated eastward
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