So from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth,(A) and they stopped building the city. Therefore it is called Babylon,[a][b](B) for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth.

From Shem to Abram

10 These are the family records(C) of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:9 Hb Babel
  2. 11:9 In Hb, the name for “Babylon,” babel sounds like the word for “confuse,” balal.

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