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the LORD: wherefore it is ſaide, Euen as Nimrod the mightie hunter before the LORD.

¹⁰And the beginning of his kingdome was ^†† Gr.Babylon Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

¹¹Out of that land ‖‖ Or, he went out into Aſſyria. went forth Aſſhur, and builded Nineueh, and the ‖‖ Or, the ſtreetes of the Citie. citie Rehoboth, and Calah,

¹²And Reſen betweene Nineueh and Calah: the ſame is a great citie.

¹³And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

¹⁴And Pathruſim, and Caſluhim, (out of whom came Philiſtim,) and Caphtorim.

¹⁵¶ And Canaan begate ^†† Heb.Tzidon Sidon his firſt borne, and Heth,

¹⁶And the Iebuſite, and the Emorite, and the Girgaſite,

¹⁷And the Hiuite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

¹⁸And the Aruadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites ſpread abroad.

¹⁹And the border of the Canaanites, was from Sidon, as thou commeſt to Gerar, vnto ^†† Hebr. Azzah Gaza, as thou goeſt vnto Sodoma and Gomorah, and Admah, ⁊ Zeboim, euen vnto Laſha.

²⁰Theſe are the ſonnes of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

²¹¶ Vnto Shem alſo the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Iaphet the elder, euen to him were children borne.

²²The ** 1.Chron.1.17 children of Shem: Elam, and Aſſhur, and ^†† Hebr. Arpachſhad Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

²³And the children of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Maſh.

²⁴And Arphaxad begate ^†† Hebr. Shelah Salah, and Salah begate Eber.

²⁵** 1.Chron.1.19. And vnto Eber were borne two ſonnes: the name of one was Peleg, for in his dayes was the earth diuided, and his brothers name was Ioktan.

²⁶And Ioktan begate Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaueth, and Ierah,

²⁷And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

²⁸And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

²⁹And Ophir, and Hauilah, ⁊ Iobab: all theſe were the ſonnes of Ioktan.

³⁰And their dwelling was from Meſha, as thou goeſt vnto Sephar, a mount of the Easſt.

³¹Theſe are the ſonnes of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands after their nations.

³²Theſe are the families of the ſonnes of Noah after their generations, in their nations: and by theſe were the nations diuided in the earth after the Flood.

CHAP. XI.

1 One language in the world. 3 The building of Babel. 5 The confuſion of tongues. 10 The generations of Shem. 27 The generations of Terah the father of Abram. 31Terah goeth from Vr to Haran.

Nd ** Wiſ.10.5. the whole earth was of one ^†† Hebr.lippe. language, and of one ^†† Heb.words. ſpeach.

²And it came to paſſe as they iourneyed from the Eaſt, that they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

³And ^†† Heb. a man ſaid to his neighbour. they ſayd one to another; Goe to, let vs make bricke, and ^†† Heb. burne them to a burning. burne them thorowly, And they had bricke for ſtone, and ſlime had they for morter.

⁴And they ſaid; Goe to, let vs build vs a city and a tower, whoſe top may reach vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, leſt we be ſcattered abroad vpon the face of the whole earth.

⁵And the LORD came downe to ſee the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

⁶And the LORD ſaid; Behold, the people is one, and they haue all one language: and this they begin to doe: and now nothing will be reſtrained from them, which they haue imagined to doe.

⁷Gote to, let vs go downe, and there cõfound their language, that they may not vnderſtand one anothers ſpeech.

⁸So the LORD ſcattered them abroad from thence, vpon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the Citie.

⁹Therefore is the name of it called ^†† That is, Confuſion. Babel, becauſe the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD ſcatter them abroad vpon the face of all the earth.

¹⁰¶ ** 1.Chron.1.17. Theſe are the generations of Shem. Shem was an hundred yeres old, and