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GENESIS.

they haue begunne to doe this, neyther wil they leaue of from their determinations, til they accomplish them indede. 7Come ye therfore, ″let vs goe downe, and there confound their tongue, that none may heare is neighbours voice. 8And so our Lord dispersed them from that place into al lands, and they ceased to build the citie. 9And therfore the name therof was called Babel, ∷[1] because there the tongue of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence our Lord dispersed them vpon the face of al countries.

10These are ∷[2] the generations of Sem: Sem was an hundred yeares old when he begat Arphaxad, two years after the floud. 11And Sem liued after he begat Arphaxad, fiue hundred yeares: and begat sonnes and daughters. 12Moreouer Arphaxad liued thirtie fiue yeares, and ″begat Sale. 13And Arphaxad liued after he begat Sale, three hundred three yeares: and begat sonnes and daughters. 14Sale also liued thirtie yeares, and begat Heber. 15And Sale liued after he begat Heber, foure hundred three yeares: and begat sonnes and daughters. 16And Heber liued thirtie foure yeares, and begat Phaleg. 17And Heber liued after he begat Phaleg, foure hundred thirtie yeares: and begat sonnes and daughters. 18Phaleg also liued thirtie yeares, and begat Reu. 19And Phaleg liued after he begat Reu, two hundred nine yeares, and begat sonnes and daughters. 20And Reu liued thirtie two yeares, and begat Sarug. 21Reu liued also after he begat Sarug, two hundred seauen yeares: and begat sonnes & daughters. 22And Sarug liued thirtie yeares, and begat Nachor. 23And Sarug liued after he begat Nachor, two hundred yeares: and begat sonnes and daughters. 24And Nachor liued nine and twentie yeares, and begat Thare. 25And Nachor liued after he begot Thare, an hundred and nintene yeares: and begat sonnes and daughters. 26And Thare liued seauentie yeares, and begat Abram and Nachor, and Aran. 27And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begat Abram, Nachor, & Aran. Moreouer Aran begat Lot. 28And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his natiuitie in ∷[3] Vr of the Chaldees. 29And Abram & Nachor maried wiues: the name of Abram his wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor his Wife, Melcha the daughter of Aran the father of Melcha, and the father of Iescha. 30And Sarai was barren, neither had she

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  1. He that speaketh so confusedly is not understood is said to bable.
  2. Moyses here sheweth the succession of Patriarches, from Sem to Abraham, as he did before from Adam to Noe.S.Aug.li.16.c.10.ci
  3. Vr a citie, or territorie of Chaldea. 70.Interpret. and Iosephus li.1 Antiq.