| Légende du revers |
2218. B. C AND THE WHOLE EARTH WAS OF ONE LANGUAGE, AND ONE SPEECH. AND A PART OF NOAHS FAMILY, PROBABLY HAMS LINE JOURNEYED FROM THE EAST, TO THE LAND OF SHINAR, AND THERE BUILT WITH BRICK THE CITY AND TOWER OF BABEL, WHOSE TOP THEY SAID MIGHT REACH UNTO HEAVEN. BUT GOD CONFOUNDED THEIR LANGUAGE, THAT THEY MIGHT NOT UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER, AND THEY DISCONTINUED BUILDING THE TOWER, AND WERE SCATTERED UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. SHEM WAS 100 YEARS OLD, 2 YEARS AFTER THE FLOOD WHEN HE HAD A SON BORN UNTO HIM NAMED ARPHAXAD AND SHEM LIVED 500 YEARS AFTERWARDS AND HAD SONS AND DAUGHTERS. AND ARPHAXAD HAD A SON BORN UNTO HIM NAMED SALAH, AND SALAH HAD A SON NAMED EBER, AND EBER HAD A SON NAMED PELEG, AND PELEG HAD A SON NAMED REU, & REU HAD A SON NAMED SERAG, AND SERAG HAD A SON NAMED NAHOR, AND NAHOR HAD A SON NAMED TERAH, AND UNTO TERAH WAS BORN ABRAHAM, NAHOR, AND HARAN. AND HARAN MARRIED AND HAD A SON WHOM HE NAMED LOT. AND HARAN DIED BEFORE HIS FATHER TERAH. ABRAHAM AND NAHOR TOOK WIVES, THE NAME OF ABRAHAMS WIFE WAS SARAI, AND NAHORS WIFE WAS MILCAH. TERAH LIVED 205 YEARS, AND DIED 1921.B.C NOW THE LORD SAID UNTO ABRAHAM, GET THEE OUT FROM THAT COUNTRY, UNTO A LAND THAT I WILL SHEW THEE. AND I WILL MAKE THEE A GREAT NATION. |
