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Genesis 11:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Genesis 11:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
The Tower of Babel
11 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as they migrated from the east,[a] they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.’ And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
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- Genesis 11:2 Or migrated eastward
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