4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a dname for ourselves, lest we be edispersed over the face of the whole earth.”
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Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
Genesis 9:19
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.
Genesis 10:5
From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.
Genesis 10:18
the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed.
Genesis 10:25
To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.
Genesis 10:32
These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:8–9
So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
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