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of the same. And when they journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it. And one said to his neighbor: Come, let us make bricks, and bake them with fire. And they had bricks instead of stones, and bitumen for mortar. And they said: Come, let us make for ourselves a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach even to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands. And the Lord descended to see the city and the tower, which the sons of Adam were building, and said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one language. And they have begun to do this: nor will they desist from their thoughts until they accomplish them in action. Come, therefore, let us descend and confound there their language, that everyone may not hear the voice of his neighbor. And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city. And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded. And from thence the Lord dispersed them upon the face of all regions. These are the generations of Sem. Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxat, two years after the flood. And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxat five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. Moreover, Arphaxat lived thirty-five years and begot Sale. And Arphaxat lived after he begot Sale three hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. And Sale lived after he begot Heber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. And Heber lived thirty-four years and begot Phalech. And Heber lived after he begot Phalech four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters. Also Phalech lived thirty years and begot Reu. And Phalech lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters. He lived

also Reu thirty-five years, and begot Saruth. And Reu lived after he begot Saruch two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters. And Saruch lived thirty years, and begot Nachor. And Saruch lived after he begot Nachor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. And Nachor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Thare. Nachor lived after he begot Thare one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters. And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Aram. Now these are the generations of Thare. Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and Aram. Moreover, Aram begot Loth. And Aram died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldeans. And Abram and Nachor took wives. The name of the wife of Abram was Sarai. And the name of the wife of Nachor was Melcha, the daughter of Aram, father of Melcha and father of Iescha. And Sarai was barren and had no children. Thare therefore took Abram his son, and Loth the son of Aram, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Chanaan. And they came as far as Haram, and dwelt there. And the days of Thare were two hundred and five years, and he died in Haram.

C. XII.

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And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and I will magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed. I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed. So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Loth went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out of Haram. And he took Sarai his wife,