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And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth Henoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son Henoch.
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Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.
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Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this is the great city.
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And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
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And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.
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And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.
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If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?
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And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.
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What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city? And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty.
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And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground,
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But before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house both young and old, all the people together.
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And they said to Lot: Hast thou here any of thine? son in law, or sons, or daughters, all that are thine bring them out of this city:
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So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.
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And when it was morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise, take thy wife, and the two daughters which thou hast: lest thou also perish in the wickedness of the city.
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And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.
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There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?
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And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.
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Make haste and be saved there, because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.
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And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.
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Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:
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Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.
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And he took ten camels of his master's herd, and departed, carrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forward and went on to Mesopotamia to the city of Nachor.
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Behold I stand nigh the spring of water, and the daughters of the inhabitants of this city will come out to draw water.
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Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.
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And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.