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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: Genesis 11 The Tower of Babel There was a time when the whole world spoke one language.
- 0:10SPEAKER_00: Everyone used the same words.
- 0:13SPEAKER_00: Then people began to move from the east.
- 0:17SPEAKER_00: They found a plain in the land of Babylonia and stayed there to live.
- 0:24SPEAKER_00: Then they said to each other, let's make some bricks of clay and bake them in the fire.
- 0:31SPEAKER_00: Then they used these bricks as stones and they used tar as mortar.
- 0:38SPEAKER_00: Then the people said, Let's build ourselves a city and a tower that will reach the sky.
- 0:48SPEAKER_00: Then we will be famous.
- 0:50SPEAKER_00: This will keep us together so that we will not be scattered all over the earth.
- 0:56SPEAKER_00: Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower.
- 1:01SPEAKER_00: The Lord said, These people all speak the same language, and I see that they are joined together to do this work.
- 1:11SPEAKER_00: This is only the beginning of what they can do.
- 1:15SPEAKER_00: Soon they will be able to do anything they want.
- 1:19SPEAKER_00: Let's go down and confuse their language.
- 1:23SPEAKER_00: Then they will not understand each other.
- 1:26SPEAKER_00: So people stopped building the city and the Lord scattered them all over the earth.
- 1:34SPEAKER_00: That is the place where the Lord confused the language of the whole world.
- 1:41SPEAKER_00: That is why it is called Babel.
- 1:45SPEAKER_00: And it was from there that the Lord caused the people to spread out to all the other places on earth.
- 1:56SPEAKER_00: The history of Shem's family This is the history of Shem's family.
- 2:03SPEAKER_00: Two years after the flood, when Shem was one hundred years old, his son Arfixad was born.
- 2:13SPEAKER_00: After that Shem lived five hundred years.
- 2:18SPEAKER_00: He had other sons and daughters.
- 2:21SPEAKER_00: When Arfixad was thirty five years old, his son Sheila was born.
- 2:28SPEAKER_00: After Sheila was born, Arfixad lived four hundred and three years.
- 2:35SPEAKER_00: During that time he had other sons and daughters.
- 2:40SPEAKER_00: After Sheila was thirty years old, his son Eber was born.
- 2:46SPEAKER_00: After Eber was born, Sheila lived four hundred and three years.
- 2:52SPEAKER_00: During that time he had other sons and daughters.
- 2:57SPEAKER_00: After Eber was thirty four years old, his son Peleg was born.
- 3:04SPEAKER_00: After Peleg was born, Eber lived another four hundred and thirty years.
- 3:10SPEAKER_00: During that time he had other sons and daughters.
- 3:15SPEAKER_00: After Peleg was thirty years old, his son Ru was born.
- 3:21SPEAKER_00: After Ru was born, Peleg lived another two hundred and nine years.
- 3:27SPEAKER_00: During that time he had other sons and daughters.
- 3:31SPEAKER_00: After Ru was thirty two years old, his son Sarug was born.
- 3:38SPEAKER_00: After Sarug was born, Ru lived another two hundred and seven years.
- 3:44SPEAKER_00: During that time he had other sons and daughters.
- 3:48SPEAKER_00: After Sarug was thirty years old, his son Nahor was born.
- 3:54SPEAKER_00: After Nahor was born, Sarug lived another two hundred years.
- 4:00SPEAKER_00: During that time he had other sons and daughters.
- 4:05SPEAKER_00: After Nahor was twenty nine years old, his son Terra was born.
- 4:11SPEAKER_00: After Terra was born, Nahor lived another one hundred nineteen years.
- 4:18SPEAKER_00: During that time he had other sons and daughters.
- 4:23SPEAKER_00: After Terra was seventy years old, his sons Abram, Nahor, and Haron were born.
- 4:33SPEAKER_00: The history of Terah's family This is the history of Terah's family.
- 4:40SPEAKER_00: Terra was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haron.
- 4:46SPEAKER_00: Haron was the father of Lot.
- 4:50SPEAKER_00: Heron died in his hometown Ur of Babylonia, while his father Terra was still alive.
- 5:00SPEAKER_00: Abram and Nahor both married.
- 5:03SPEAKER_00: Abram's wife was named Sarai.
- 5:07SPEAKER_00: Nahor's wife was named Milka.
- 5:11SPEAKER_00: Milka was the daughter of Haran.
- 5:14SPEAKER_00: Haron was the father of Milka and Ish.
- 5:19SPEAKER_00: Sarai did not have any children because she was not able to have children.
- 5:25SPEAKER_00: Terra took his family and left Ur of Babylonia.
- 5:30SPEAKER_00: They planned to travel to Canaan.
- 5:34SPEAKER_00: Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, and his daughter in law Sarai.
- 5:43SPEAKER_00: They traveled to the city of Haran and decided to stay there.
- 5:49SPEAKER_00: Terah lived to be two hundred and five years old.
- 5:53SPEAKER_00: He died in Haran.