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So the Lord scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. The city was called Babylon,[a] because there the Lord mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.

The Descendants of Shem(A)

10 These are the descendants of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he had a son, Arpachshad.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:9 This name sounds like the Hebrew for “mixed up.”

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