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Storyteller7777
highlighted Genesis 12:7 NLT
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your descendants.” And Abram built an altar there and dedicated it to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Mar 16
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highlighted Genesis 12:5-6 NLT
He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all his wealth—his livestock and all the people he had taken into his household at Haran—and headed for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan, Abram traveled through the land as far as Shechem. There he set up camp beside the oak of Moreh. At that time, the area was inhabited by Canaanites.
Mar 16
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highlighted Genesis 12:4 NLT
So Abram departed as the LORD had instructed, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
Mar 16
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highlighted Genesis 12:2-3 NLT
I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.”
Mar 16
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highlighted Genesis 12:1 NLT
The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you.
Mar 16
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highlighted Genesis 11:31 NLT
One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram’s wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran’s child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there.
Mar 15
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highlighted Genesis 11:29-30 NLT
Meanwhile, Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah. (Milcah and her sister Iscah were daughters of Nahor’s brother Haran.) But Sarai was unable to become pregnant and had no children.
Mar 15
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highlighted Genesis 11:27 NLT
This is the account of Terah’s family. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.
Mar 15
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highlighted Genesis 11:10 NLT
This is the account of Shem’s family. Two years after the great flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
Mar 15
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highlighted Genesis 11:26 NLT
After Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Mar 15
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highlighted Genesis 11:9 NLT
That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the LORD confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.
Mar 15
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highlighted Genesis 11:8 NLT
In that way, the LORD scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city.
Mar 15
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highlighted Genesis 11:7 NLT
Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.”
Mar 15
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highlighted Genesis 11:6 NLT
“Look!” he said. “The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them!
Mar 15
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highlighted Genesis 11:5 NLT
But the LORD came down to look at the city and the tower the people were building.
Mar 15
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highlighted Genesis 11:3-4 NLT
They began saying to each other, “Let’s make bricks and harden them with fire.” (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.) Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”
Mar 15
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highlighted Genesis 11:1-2 NLT
At one time all the people of the world spoke the same language and used the same words. As the people migrated to the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.
Mar 15
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highlighted Genesis 10:31-32 NLT
These were the descendants of Shem, identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity. These are the clans that descended from Noah’s sons, arranged by nation according to their lines of descent. All the nations of the earth descended from these clans after the great flood.
Mar 15
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highlighted Genesis 10:1 NLT
This is the account of the families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the three sons of Noah. Many children were born to them after the great flood.
Mar 15
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highlighted Genesis 10:30 NLT
The territory they occupied extended from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern mountains.
Mar 15