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Genesis 11:8

“So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.”
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6And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

7Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

8So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

9That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

10This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

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