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Genesis 11:29 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. "
Genesis 11:29
Verse in Context
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Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt
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Genesis 11:1
"And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech."
Genesis 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"
Genesis 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."
Genesis 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."
Genesis 11:5
"And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded."
Genesis 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."
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