Genesis 11:1-9
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[1] The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. [2] It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they lived there. [3] They said one to another, "Come, let's make brick, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. [4] They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth." [5] Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. [6] Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. [7] Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." [8] So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city. [9] Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
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Genesis 11:1-9 mentions Babel, Canaan, Chaldea, Haran, Shinar and Ur.
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