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창 10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
창 10:31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
창 10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
창 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
창 11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
창 11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
창 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
창 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
창 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
창 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
창 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.