GENESIS CHAPTER 11. One language in the earth, Genesis 11:1. They journey from the east, settle in a plain in the land of Shinar, Genesis 11:2; make bricks, which they burn and use with slime, Genesis 11:3; build a city and tower that they might not be scattered, Genesis 11:4. God sees it, Genesis 11:5. Disapproves their design, Genesis 11:6; defeats it, and scatters them by confounding their language, Genesis 11:7,8; for which reason the place called Babel, Genesis 11:9. The posterity of Shem to Abram, Genesis 11:10-26. Abram takes Sarai to wife, Genesis 11:29. She is barren, Genesis 11:30. He removes from Ur to Haran, Genesis 11:31, where his father dies, Genesis 11:32. Earth is oft put for its inhabitants, as Genesis 6:21 1 Chronicles 16:23 Psalms 33:8. Of one speech, which even heathen writers acknowledge; and that probably was the Hebrew tongue.
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Genesis 11:1
1 And the whole earth was of one language,a and of one speech.