Genesis 11

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1 And the whole earth was of one language , and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language , that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city . 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 10 ¶ These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: 11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: 13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: 15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg : 17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: 19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. 20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: 21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: 23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah : 25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram , Nahor, and Haran. 27 ¶ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees . 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai ; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah , the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 30 But Sarai was barren ; she had no child. 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees , to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran , and dwelt there. 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. TG Language . Gen. 10:10 ; 14:1 ; Dan. 1:2 . OR bitumen. Gen. 14:10 . TG Name . Omni 1:22 ; Mosiah 28:17 . TG Communication . JST Gen. 11:6 … city, and they hearkened not unto the Lord … HEB balal, “mix,” “confound” (a word play on Babel). TG Language . 1 Ne. 10:13 (12–13) . TG Book of Mormon . Ether 1:33 (33–43) . TG Earth, Dividing of . Abr. 2:1 (1–4) . Abr. 2:1 (1–2) . Luke 3:34 (34–36) ; Hel. 8:18 (16–19) ; D&C 136:37 ; Abr. 1:1 . Job 1:17 ; Abr. 1:1, 20 (20, 29–30) ; 2:4 (1, 4) . Gen. 12:5 ; Abr. 2:2 . Gen. 22:20 ; 24:15 ; Abr. 2:2 . TG Barren . Acts 7:4 (2, 4) . Abr. 2:3 (1–4) , 19 (6, 15–19) . Gen. 12:5 ; 24:4 ; Acts 7:2 (2–3) ; Abr. 2:4 (1–6, 14) .