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¹ Morouer all the worlde had one tonge & language.² Now as they wente towarde the East, they founde a playne in ye londe of Synear, & there they dwelt,³ & saide one to another: Come on, let vs make bryck & burne it. And they toke bryck for stone, & slyme for morter,⁴ And sayde: Come, let vs buylde a cite & a tower, whose toppe maye reach vnto heaue, yt we maye make vs a name, afore we be scatred abrode in all londes.

⁵ Then came ye LORDE downe, to se ye cite & tower, yt ye childre of me had buylded.⁶ And ye LORDE saide: Beholde, the people is one, & haue one maner of language amoge the all, & this haue they begonne to do, & wil not leaue of from all yt they haue purposed to do.⁷ Come on, let vs go downe, & cofounde their tonge eue there, yt one vnderstonde not what another saieth.⁸ Thus ye LORDE scatred the fro thece in all lodes, so yt they left of to buylde the cite.⁹ Therfore is it called Babell, because the LORDE cofounded there the language of all the worlde, and from thece scatred them abrode in to all londes.

¹⁰ These are ye generacions of Sem. Sem was an hundreth yeare olde, and begat Arphachsad two yeare after the floude,¹¹ and lyued therafter fyue hudreth yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters.¹² Arphachsad was fiue & thirtie yeare olde, and begat Salah,¹³ and lyued therafter foure hundreth and thre yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters.¹⁴ Salah was thirtie yeare olde, and begat Eber,¹⁵ & lyued therafter foure hudreth & thre yeare, & begat sonnes and doughters.¹⁶ Eber was foure and thirtie yeare olde, & begat Peleg,¹⁷ and lyued therafter foure hundreth and thirtie yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters.¹⁸ Peleg was thirtie yeare olde, and begat Regu,¹⁹ and lyued therafter two hudreth and nyene yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters.²⁰ Regu was two and thirtie yeare olde, and begat Serug,²¹ and lyued therafter two hundreth and seuen yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters.²² Serug was thirtie yeare olde, and begat Nahor,²³ and lyued therafter two hundreth yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters.²⁴ Nahor was nyene and twentye yeare olde, and begat Terah,²⁵ and lyued herafter an hundreth and nyentene yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters.²⁶ Terah was seuentie yeare olde, and begat Abram, Nahor and Haran.

²⁷ These are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran begat Lot,²⁸ but Hara dyed before Terah his father in ye londe where he was borne, at Vr in Chaldea.²⁹ Then Abram and Nahor toke them wyues. Abrams wife was called Sarai, & Nahors wyfe Milca the doughter of Haran, which was father of Milca and Iisca.³⁰ But Sarai was baren, and had no childe.³¹ Then toke Terah Abra his sonne, & Lot his sonne Harans sonne, & Sarai his doughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams wife, & caried them wt him from Vr in Chaldea, to go in to the lande of Canaan. And they came to Haran, & dwelt there.³² And Terah was two hundreth & fyue yeare olde, and dyed in Haran.