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Genesis 11:1-7

11:1

And the whole earth
<0776>

was of one
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language
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and of one
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speech
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{language: Heb. lip.} {speech: Heb. words}

11:2

And it came to pass, as they journeyed
<05265> (8800)

from the east
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that they found
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a plain
<01237>

in the land
<0776>

of Shinar
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and they dwelt
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there. {from...: or, eastward}

11:3

And they said
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one
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to another
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Go to
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let us make
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brick
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and burn
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them throughly
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And they had brick
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for stone
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and slime
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had
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they for morter
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{they said...: Heb. a man said to his neighbour} {burn...: Heb. burn them to a burning}

11:4

And they said
<0559> (8799)_,

Go to
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let us build
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us a city
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and a tower
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whose top
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[may reach] unto heaven
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and let us make
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us a name
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lest we be scattered abroad
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upon the face
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of the whole earth
<0776>_.

11:5

And the LORD
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came down
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to see
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the city
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and the tower
<04026>_,

which the children
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of men
<0120>

builded
<01129> (8804)_.

11:6

And the LORD
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said
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Behold, the people
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[is] one
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and they have all one
<0259>

language
<08193>_;

and this they begin
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to do
<06213> (8800)_:

and now nothing
<03808> <03605>

will be restrained
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from them, which they have imagined
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to do
<06213> (8800)_.

11:7

Go to
<03051> (8798)_,

let us go down
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and there confound
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their language
<08193>_,

that
<0834>

they may not understand
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one
<0376>

another's
<07453>

speech
<08193>_.