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So the Lord separated the people from one another. They went to live in different lands all over the earth. They stopped building the city for themselves. That is why people called the city Babel.[a] It was because the Lord confused all the people of the world and he gave them different languages to speak. From that time, the Lord separated the people from each other so that they lived in different places all over the earth.

Shem's family

10 This is the report about Shem and his family.

Two years after the deep water went away from the earth, Shem was 100 years old. He became the father of Arphaxad.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:9 ‘Babel’ is like the word for ‘confused’.