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Concerning The Tower Of Babylon, And The Confusion Of.
Tongues.
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Now the sons of Noah were three,--Shem, Japhet, and Ham, born one hundred years before the Deluge.

These first of all descended from the mountains into the plains, and fixed their habitation there; and persuaded others who were greatly afraid of the lower grounds on account of the flood, and so were very loath to come down from the higher places, to venture to follow their examples.

Now the plain in which they first dwelt was called Shinar.