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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 10, Verse 30

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And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were] the sons of Joktan.
King James Version
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
American Standard Version
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
New English Translation
Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern hills.
World English Bible
Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
31
These [are] the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
32
These [are] the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
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And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
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And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
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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.
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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.
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And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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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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Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.