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So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, for there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth, and there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

The Descendants of Shem

10 These are the generations[a] of Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old,[b] he fathered Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:10 Or “family records”
  2. Genesis 11:10 Literally “the son of one hundred years”

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth,(A) and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel[a](B)—because there the Lord confused the language(C) of the whole world.(D) From there the Lord scattered(E) them over the face of the whole earth.

From Shem to Abram(F)

10 This is the account(G) of Shem’s family line.

Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father[b] of Arphaxad.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:9 That is, Babylon; Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused.
  2. Genesis 11:10 Father may mean ancestor; also in verses 11-25.