#Genesis
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The Text Readings (formerly known as “Day Texts”) are usually anywhere from 15-60 minutes. This show is about Genesis 11:1-9 and the history of humankinds' initial migration after the Flood, specifically, as they travel into Sumer and begin building Babylon and the Tower of Babel according to translations of both the Hebrew (H) and Greek (G) texts.

(H) 11:1 Then it was that all the earth had the same speech, and the same words.
(G) 11:1 So the entire earth was one speech, and there was one sound for everyone.

(H) 11:2 Now it began to occur during the time they were moving away from the east that they began to find a plain in the land of Babylonia [or, “Shinar”]. So there is where they started to live.
(G) 11:2 And it came about during their move from the east they found a flat area in the land of Babylonia [or, “Sennaar”] and there they continued to live.

(H) 11:3 Then each man began to say to his associate, “Help, as we make brick tiles and as we burn them in a baking process.” So the brick tile became as stone to them and bitumen [or, “asphalt”] became as mortar for them.
(G) 11:3 Then a man said to his neighbor, “Come here. Let us make bricks and bake them with fire.” So the brick became as stone to them and asphalt was the clay [or, “mud”] filling for them.

(H) 11:4 Then they began to say, “Help, as we build for ourselves a city and a tall structure [or, ‘a tower’], and its top will be in the heavens and we will make a name for ourselves, to avoid being sent in different directions over the various areas of the whole earth.”
(G) 11:4 Next they said, “Come here. Let us build for ourselves a city and a tower, the head of which will be as far as heaven, and we will make for ourselves a name before being scattered over the surface of all the earth.”

(H) 11:5 So Jaho(h)-ah started to come down to check out the city and the tall structure which sons of Adam had built.
(G) 11:5 Then Lord [Jaho(h)-ah] descended to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

(H) 11:6 Then Jaho(h)-ah began to say, “Behold! One people, and one speech belonging to all of them, but this is what they start to make [or, ‘to do’]. Now there is nothing to keep from them all which they will plan to make.
(G) 11:6 And Lord [Jaho(h)-ah] said, “There is one race, and one speech belonging to all, and they start to make [or, ‘to do’] this. Now they will not cease from any of their ideas, as many things as they decide to do.

(H) 11:7 Work together, as we go down and as we mix things up there having to do with their speech, so that they will not understand a man who speaks as he talks with his neighbor.”
(G) 11:7 Come together, and after we go down let us confuse the language there among them, so that each one may not listen to the voice of his neighbor.”

(H) 11:8 So Jaho(h)-ah began sending them in different directions from that place, over various areas of the whole earth. Then they started to cease building the city [(G), “ceased building the city and the tower”].
(G) 11:8 So Lord [Jaho(h)-ah] scattered them from that place, on the surface of all of the earth, and they ceased building the city and the tower.

(H) 11:9 On this account its name has been called, “Babel” [or, “Babylon,” meaning, “confusion”], because there is where Jaho(h)-ah had mixed up the speech of all of the earth and because from there is where Jaho(h)-ah had sent them in different directions over various areas of all of the earth.
(G) 11:9 On this account the name of the city has been called, “Synchysis” [meaning, “mix-up,” or “confusion”], because there Lord [Jaho(h)-ah] mixed-up [or, “confused”] the speeches of all of the earth, and from that place Lord God [Jaho(h)-ah] scattered them on the surface of all of the earth.

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