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Genesis · read by Mark Sweetnam
17 verses, in order. Only the verses Mark read aloud are shown.
Genesis 11
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Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
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And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.Read from NKJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
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And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
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"Come," they said, "let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth."Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
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Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
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And the LORD said, "If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
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Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
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So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
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That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
Genesis 12
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Then the LORD said to Abram, "Leave your country, your kindred, and your father's household, and go to the land I will show you.Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
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I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
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I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you."Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
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So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
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And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
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Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars
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Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring. " So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.Read from KJV · Pitching tents and Building altars