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CHAP. XI.

The fourth part of this booke. Of the diuision of tongs and nations.God hindreth the vaine purpose of building a high towre, 7. by confounding mens tongs: 9. wherof it is called Babel. 10. The genealogie of Sem to Abram.

AND the earth was of one tong, and al one speach. ²And when they remoued from the east, they found a plaine in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it. ³And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let vs make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stone, and bitume instead of morter: ⁴and they said, Come, ″ let vs make vs a citie and a towre, the top wherof may reach to heauen: and let vs renowne our name before we be dispersed into al lands. ⁵And our Lord descended to see the citie and the towre, which the children of Adam builded, ⁶and he said: Behold, it is one people, and one tong is to al: and they haue begun to doe this, neyther wil they leaue off from their determinations, til they accomplish them indeed. ⁷Come yee therfore, ″ let vs goe downe, and there confound their tong, that none may heare his neighbours voice. ⁸And so our Lord dispersed them from that place into al lands, and they ceased to build the citie. ⁹And therfore the name therof was called Babel, ^[1] because there the tong of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence our Lord dispersed them vpon the face of al countries.

¹⁰These are ^[2] the generations of Sem: Sem was an hundred yeares old when he begat Arphaxad, two yeares after the floud. ¹¹And Sem liued after he begat Arphaxad, fiue hundred yeares, and begat sonnes and daughters. ¹²Moreouer Arphaxad liued thirtie fiue yeares, and ″ begat Sale. ¹³And Arphaxad liued after he begat Sale, three hundred three yeares: and begat sonnes and daughters. ¹⁴Sale also liued thirtie yeares, and begat Heber. ¹⁵And Sale liued after he begat Heber, foure hundred three yeares, & begat sonnes & daughters. ¹⁶And Heber liued thirtie foure yeares, and begat Phaleg. ¹⁷And Heber liued after he begat Phaleg, foure hundred thirtie yeares, and begat sonnes and daughters. ¹⁸Phaleg also liued thirtie yeares, and begat Reu. ¹⁹And Phaleg liued after he begat Reu, two hundred nine yeares, and begat sonnes and

1. He that speaketh so confusedly that he is not understood is said to bable.
2. Moyses here sheweth the succession of Patriarchs, from Sem to Abraham, as he did before from Adam to Noe. S. Aug. l. 16. c. 10. ciuit.