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So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the surface of the whole earth, so that they had to stop building the city. Therefore it was called Babylon,[a] because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord scattered them over the surface of the entire earth.

Descendants of Shem

10 These are the family records[b] of Shem. When Shem had lived 100 years, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:9 The Heb. name Babel means confusion
  2. Genesis 11:10 Or generations