13 You who live by many waters(A)
    and are rich in treasures,(B)
your end has come,
    the time for you to be destroyed.(C)

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As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b](A) and settled there.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:2 Or from the east; or in the east
  2. Genesis 11:2 That is, Babylonia

That is why it was called Babel[a](A)—because there the Lord confused the language(B) of the whole world.(C) From there the Lord scattered(D) them over the face of the whole earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:9 That is, Babylon; Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused.

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