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8-9 So the people had to stop building the city, because the Lord confused their language and scattered them all over the earth. That's how the city of Babel[a] got its name.

The Descendants of Shem

10-11 Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100, he had a son named Arpachshad. He had more children and died at the age of 600. This is a list of his descendants:

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Footnotes

  1. 11.8,9 Babel: In Hebrew “Babel” sounds like “confused.”

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