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Genesis 11:9 8 Genesis 12:18

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citie. Therefore the name of it was called Babel, 12
because the Lord did there confounde the lan- 1 For the Lord had said vnto Abram, Get thee
guage of all the earth: from thence then did the out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and
Lord scatter them vpon all the earth. 10 These are from thy fathers house vnto the land that I will
the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundreth shewe thee. 2 And I will make of thee a great
yeere olde, and begate Arpachshad two yeere nation, and will blesse thee, and make thy name
after the flood. 11 And Shem liued, after he begate great, and thou shalt be a blessing. 3 I will also
Arpachshad, fiue hundreth yeeres, and begate blesse them that blesse thee, and curse them that
sonnes and daughters. 12 Also Arpachshad liued curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the
fiue and thirtie yeeres, and begate Shelah. 13 And earth be blessed. 4 So Abram departed, euen as
Arpachshad liued, after he begate Shelah, foure ye Lord spake vnto him, and Lot went with him.
hundreth and three yeeres, and begate sonnes (And Abram was seuentie and fiue yeere olde,
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and daughters. 14 And Shelah liued thirtie yeeres, when he departed out of Haran) Then Abram
and begat Eber. 15 So Shelah liued, after he begat tooke Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers sonne,
Eber, foure hundreth and three yeeres, and begat and all their substance that they possessed, and
sonnes and daughters. 16 Likewise Eber liued the soules that they had gotten in Haran, and
foure and thirtie yeres, and begate Peleg. 17 So they departed, to goe to the land of Canaan:
Eber liued, after he begate Peleg, foure hundreth and to the land of Canaan they came. 6 So
and thirtie yeeres, and begate sonnes and daugh- Abram passed through the land vnto the place
ters 18 And Peleg liued thirtie yeeres, and begate of Shechem, and vnto the plaine of Moreh (and
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Reu. 19 And Peleg liued, after he begate Reu, the Canaanite was then in ye land) And the Lord
two hundreth and nine yeeres, and begate sonnes appeared vnto Abram, and said, Vnto thy seede
and daughters. 20 Also Reu liued two and thirtie will I giue this land. And there builded he an
yeeres, and begate Serug. 21 So Reu liued, after altar vnto the Lord, which appeared vnto him.
he begate Serug, two hundreth and seuen yeeres, 8 Afterward remouing thence vnto a moutaine
and begate sonnes and daughters. 22 Moreouer Eastward from Beth-el, he pitched his tent hau-
Serug liued thirtie yeeres, and begate Nahor. ing Beth-el on the Westside, and Haai on the
23 And Serug liued, after he begate Nahor, two East: and there he built an altar vnto the Lord,
hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daugh- and called on the Name of the Lord. 9 Againe
ters. 24 And Nahor liued nine and twentie yeeres, Abram went forth going and iourneying toward
and begate Terah. 25 So Nahor liued, after he the South. 10 Then there came a famine in the
begate Terah, an hundreth and nineteene yeeres, land: therefore Abram went downe into Egypt to
and begat sonnes and daughters. 26 So Terah soiourne there: for there was a great famine in
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liued seuentie yeeres, and begate Abram, Nahor, the lande. And when he drewe neere to enter
into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Beholde
and Haran. 27 Nowe these are the generations of nowe, I know that thou art a faire woman to
Terah: Terah begate Abram, Nahor, and Haran: looke vpon: 12 Therefore it will come to passe,
and Haran begate Lot. 28 Then Haran died before that when the Egyptians see thee, they will say,
Terah his father in the land of his natiuitie, in She is his wife: so will they kill me, but they
Vr of the Caldees. 29 So Abram and Nahor tooke will keepe thee aliue. 13 Say, I pray thee, that
them wiues. The name of Abrams wife was
Sarai, and the name of Nahors wife Milcah, the thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy
daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the sake, and that my life may be preserued by thee.
father of Iscah. 30 But Sarai was barren, and had 14 Nowe when Abram was come into Egypt, the
no childe. 31 Then Terah tooke Abram his sonne, Egyptians behelde the woman: for she was very
and Lot the sonne of Haran, his sonnes sonne, faire. 15 And the Princes of Pharaoh sawe her, and
and Sarai his daughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams commended her vnto Pharaoh: so the woman
wife: and they departed together from Vr of the was taken into Pharaohs house: 16 Who intreated
Caldees, to goe into the land of Canaan, and they Abram well for her sake, and he had sheepe, and
came to Haran, and dwelt there. 32 So the dayes beeues, and hee asses, and men seruants and
of Terah were two hundreth and fiue yeeres, and maide seruants, and shee asses, and camelles.
But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house
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Terah died in Haran. with great plagues, because of Sarai Abrams wife.
18 Then Pharaoh called Abram, and saide, Why