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By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar.

And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, the Hethite,

And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days was the earth divided: and his brother’s name Jectan.

And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:

And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees.

And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.

And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,

And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:

And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.

But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram’s wife.

And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led him away and his wife, and all that he had.

And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him into the south.

And he returned by the way, that he came, from the south to Bethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai,

And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

So Abram removing his tent, came, and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.

And Lot also, the son of Abram’s brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and his substance.

Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that his brother Lot was taken, he numbered of the servants born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, well appointed: and pursued them to Dan.

And dividing his company, he rushed upon them in the night, and defeated them: and pursued them as far as Hoba, which is on the left hand of Damascus.