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GENESIS CHAPTER 11.
One language in the earth, Gen_11:1. They journey from the east, settle in a plain in the land of Shinar, Gen_11:2; make bricks, which they burn and use with slime, Gen_11:3; build a city and tower that they might not be scattered, Gen_11:4. God sees it, Gen_11:5. Disapproves their design, Gen_11:6; defeats it, and scatters them by confounding their language, Gen_11:7,8; for which reason the place called Babel, Gen_11:9. The posterity of Shem to Abram, Gen_11:10-26. Abram takes Sarai to wife, Gen_11:29. She is barren, Gen_11:30. He removes from Ur to Haran, Gen_11:31, where his father dies, Gen_11:32.
Earth is oft put for its inhabitants, as Gen_6:21 1Ch_16:23 Psa_33:8.
Of one speech, which even heathen writers acknowledge; and that probably was the Hebrew tongue.