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And the LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and they have reasoned to do this thing; and now nothing will prevent them from doing that which they have imagined to do.

Come, let us go down, and there divide their language so that they may not understand one anothers speech.

So the LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth; and they ceased from building the city.

Therefore they called the name of it Babel; because it was there that the LORD confounded the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them upon the face of all the earth.

And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abrams wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan: and they came as far as Haran, and they settled there.

And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brothers son and all their possessions which they had gained and the persons that they had gotten in Haran, and they went on their way to the land of Canaan, and to the land of Canaan they came.

And it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians see you, they will say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, but they will spare you.

And the land was not able to support them, that they might dwell together; for their herds were so large that they could not dwell together.

Then Lot chose for himself all the land of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east; thus they separated one brother from the other.

Twelve years they served Cardlaamar, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

And they returned, and came to En-dina, which is Rakim (Kadesh) and they smote all the princes of the Amalekites and also the Amorites who dwelt in En-gad.

And they carried away Lot, Abrams brothers son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

And the LORD said to Abram, Know of a surety that your descendants shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and shall be in servitude: and they shall afflict them for four hundred years;

But I will judge the nation which they shall serve; and afterward they shall come out with great wealth.

And after four centuries, they shall return here; for the iniquities of the Amorites are not yet full.

And again the angel of the LORD said to her, I will greatly multiply your descendants, that they can not be numbered because of their multitude.

And take a morsel of bread and sustain your hearts; after that you shall go on your way, since you have come to your servant. And they said, So do as you have said.

And he took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set them before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, Behold, she is in the tent.

I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to their cry which has come before me; and if not, I will know.