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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Tower of Babel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As people moved eastward,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from the east</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">in the east</span></span></span><span class="content"> they found a plain in Shinar</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, Babylonia</span></span></span><span class="content"> and settled there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.11.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They said to each other, &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.&#8221; They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then they said, &#8220;Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.11.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.11.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">That is why it was called Babel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, Babylon; </span><span class="fq">Babel </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">confused</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;because there the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> confused the language of the whole world. From there the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> scattered them over the face of the whole earth.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">From Shem to Abram</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.11.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is the account of Shem&#8217;s family line.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.11.10"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.11.10"><span class="content">Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:10 </span><span class="fq">Father </span><span class="ft">may mean </span><span class="fqa">ancestor</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 11-25.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Arphaxad. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.11.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:13 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint (see also <span class="ref" usfm="LUK.3.35">Luke 3:35</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="LUK.3.36">36</span> and note at <span class="ref" usfm="GEN.10.24">Gen. 10:24</span>) </span><span class="fqa">35 years, he became the father of Cainan. </span><span class="fv">13 </span><span class="fqa">And after he became the father of Cainan, Arphaxad lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters, and then he died. When Cainan had lived 130 years, he became the father of Shelah. And after he became the father of Shelah, Cainan lived 330 years and had other sons and daughters</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.11.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.11.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.11.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.11.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.11.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.11.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.11.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abram&#8217;s Family</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.11.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">This is the account of Terah&#8217;s family line.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.11.27"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.11.27"><span class="content">Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram&#8217;s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor&#8217;s wife was Milkah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.11.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.11.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.11.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Call of Abram</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said to Abram, &#8220;Go from your country, your people and your father&#8217;s household to the land I will show you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.12.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will make you into a great nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="content">and I will bless you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="content">I will make your name great,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="content">and you will be a blessing.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">be seen as blessed</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will bless those who bless you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="content">and whoever curses you I will curse;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="content">and all peoples on earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="content">will be blessed through you.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">earth / will use your name in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So Abram went, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.12.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Abram and said, &#8220;To your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will give this land.&#8221; So he built an altar there to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who had appeared to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.12.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and called on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.12.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abram in Egypt</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.12.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, &#8220;I know what a beautiful woman you are. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When the Egyptians see you, they will say, &#8216;This is his wife.&#8217; Then they will kill me but will let you live. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.12.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And when Pharaoh&#8217;s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.12.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram&#8217;s wife Sarai. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">So Pharaoh summoned Abram. &#8220;What have you done to me?&#8221; he said. &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you tell me she was your wife? </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Why did you say, &#8216;She is my sister,&#8217; so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Why do the nations conspire</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">rage</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.2.1"><span class="content">and the peoples plot in vain?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.2.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The kings of the earth rise up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.2.2"><span class="content">and the rulers band together</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.2.2"><span class="content">against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and against his anointed, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.2.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let us break their chains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.2.3"><span class="content">and throw off their shackles.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.2.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.2.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The One enthroned in heaven laughs;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.2.4"><span class="content">the Lord scoffs at them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.2.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He rebukes them in his anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.2.5"><span class="content">and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.2.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have installed my king</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.2.6"><span class="content">on Zion, my holy mountain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.2.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will proclaim the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s decree:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.2.7"><span class="content">He said to me, &#8220;You are my son;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.2.7"><span class="content">today I have become your father.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.2.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Ask me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.2.8"><span class="content">and I will make the nations your inheritance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.2.8"><span class="content">the ends of the earth your possession.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.2.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You will break them with a rod of iron</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will rule them with an iron scepter </span><span class="ft">(see Septuagint and Syriac)</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.2.9"><span class="content">you will dash them to pieces like pottery.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.2.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.2.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore, you kings, be wise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.2.10"><span class="content">be warned, you rulers of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.2.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with fear</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.2.11"><span class="content">and celebrate his rule with trembling.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.2.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Kiss his son, or he will be angry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.2.12"><span class="content">and your way will lead to your destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.2.12"><span class="content">for his wrath can flare up in a moment.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.2.12"><span class="content">Blessed are all who take refuge in him.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LUK.1.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">He has performed mighty deeds with his arm;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LUK.1.51"><span class="content">he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LUK.1.51"></span></div>
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