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CHAP. XI.
1, One Language was in all the world. 3. The buil∣ding of Babel, 5, for which God sent the confusion of languages. 10, The generations and lives of the second ten Patriarchs; as 11, of Sem, 12, Arphaxad, 14, Sa∣lah, 16, Heber, 18, Phaleg, 20. Ragau, 22, Saruch, 24, Nachor, 26, Thara, and Abram; 30, whose wife Sarai is barren. 31, Thara and Abram, remove from Vr of the Chaldees, towards Canaan: but tarry at Charran, where Thara dyeth.
ANd all the earth was of one lip; and [unspec 1] [unspec 2] of one speech. And it was when they journyed from the east, that they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and they seated there. And they sayd every man to [unspec 3] his neighbour; Goe too, let us make bricks, and burne them with a burning: and they had bricke, for stone; and slime had they for morter. And they said; Goe too, let us [unspec 4] build us a City, and a Tower, and let the top thereof reach to the heavens; and let us make us a name: lest we be scattered-abroad upon the face of all the earth.
And Iehovah came downe, to see the Ci∣tie, [unspec 5] and the Tower: which the sons of men builded. And Iehovah sayd; Behold the [unspec 6] people is one, and they have all one lip; and this they begin to doe: and now, there will not bee cut-off from them, any thing that they have imagined to doe. Goe too, Let [unspec 7] us goe-downe, and let us confound there their lip: that they may not heare every-man his neighbours lip. And Iehovah scattered∣them-abroad, [unspec 8] from thence, upon the face of all the earth: and they left-off to build the City. Therefore is the name of it called Ba∣bel; [unspec 9] because there Iehovah confounded the lip of all the earth: and from thence Iehovah scattered-them-abroad, upon the face of all the earth.
These are the generations of Sem; Sem [unspec 10] was a hundred yeeres old; and hee begat Ar∣phaxad: two yeeres after the flood. And [unspec 11] Sem lived, after hee begat Arphaxad, five hundred yeeres: and begat sonnes and daughters.
And Arphaxad lived five & thirty yeres: [unspec 12] [unspec 13] and he begat Salah. And Arphaxad lived, after he begat Salah, foure hundred yeeres, and three yeeres: and begat sonnes and daughters.
And Salah lived thirty yeeres: and he be∣gat [unspec 14] [unspec 15] Heber. And Salah lived, after hee begat Heber, foure hundred yeres, and three yeres: and begat sons and daughters.
And Heber lived foure and thirty yeres: [unspec 16] [unspec 17] and he begat Phaleg. And Heber lived, after hee begat Phaleg, foure hundred yeeres, and thirty yeeres: and begat sonnes and daughters.
And Phaleg lived thirty yeeres: and hee [unspec 18] [unspec 19] begat Ragau. And Phaleg lived, after he be∣gat Ragau, two hundred yeeres, and nine yeeres: and begat sons and daughters.
And Ragau lived two and thirty yeeres: [unspec 20] [unspec 21] and he begat Saruch. And Ragau lived, after he begat Saruch, two hundred yeeres, and seven yeeres: and begat sonnes and daughters.
And Saruch lived thirty yeeres: and hee [unspec 22] [unspec 23] begat Nachor. And Saruch lived, after hee begat Nachor, two hundred yeeres: and be∣gat sons and daughters.
And Nachor lived nine & twenty yeeres: [unspec 24] [unspec 25] and hee begat Tharah. And Nachor lived, after he begat Tharah, an hundred yeeres, and nineteene yeeres: and begat sonnes and daughters.
And Tharah lived seventy yeeres: and he [unspec 26] [unspec 27] begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran. And these are the generations of Tharah; Tharah begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran: and Ha∣ran begat Lot. And Haran died, before the [unspec 28] face of Tharah his father: in the land of his nativity, in Vr of the Chaldees. And Abram [unspec 29] and Nachor tooke them wives: the name of Abrams wife was Sarai; and the name of Nachors wife, Milcah; the daughter of Ha∣ran the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. And Sarai was barren; shee had no [unspec 30] [unspec 31] child. And Tharah tooke Abram his son; and Lot the sonne of Haran, his sonnes son; and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his sonne: and they went forth with them, from Vr of the Chaldees; to goe to the land of Canaan; and they came unto Charran, and dwelt there. And the dayes of [unspec 32] Tharah were two hundred yeeres, and five yeeres: and Tharah dyed in Charran.
Annotations.
THe earth] that is, the inhabitants of the earth, all [unspec 1] nations: Such words, easie to be understood, are often wanting: the Scripture it selfe sometime maketh them plaine; as, will God dwell on the earth? 1 King. 8. 27. that is, with men on the earth: 2 Chr. 6. 18. and, all lands and their land, Esay 37. 18. is ex∣pounded, nations and their land, 2 King. 19. 17. all the earth sought to see Solomon, 1 King. 10. 24. that is, all the Kings of the earth, as is expressed 2 Chron. 9. 23. See Gen. 6. 11. and 27. 46. of one lip,]