Septuagint, Genesis ch 11
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(1) And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
(2) And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they dwelt there.
(3) And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
(4) And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.
(5) And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
(6) And the Lord said, Behold, There is one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.
(7) Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.
(8) And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
(9) On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.
(10) And these are the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
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(11) And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
(12) And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
(13) And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, [a] four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Canaan lived after he had begotten Sala, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
(14) And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
(15) And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
(16) And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
(17) And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg [b] two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
(18) And Phaleg lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
(19) And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
(20) And Ragau lived an hundred thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
(21) And Ragau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
(22) And Seruch lived hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
(23) And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
(24) And Nachor lived [c] a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
(25) And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, [d] an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.
(26) And Pharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
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(27) And these are the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nahor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
(28) And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.
(29) And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sara [e] and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of Arrhan, and he was the father of Malcha, the father of Jescha.
(30) And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
(31) And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan, and they came as far as Charrhan, and he dwelt there.
(32) And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.
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Notes
a] Alex. 430 years. [b] Alex. 370 years. [c] Alex. 79 years. [d] Alex. 129 years. [e] There seems to be no note of the date of Abram's marriage with Sara.
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Addendum
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In verse 6, "race" is translated from the Greek word εθνος.
Compare with Saint Paul in his famous speech at the Aeropagus, at Acts, 17.26 where he affirms this seperation of men:
- "And hath made of one blood all nations (εθνοs) of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;..."
Ancillary passage. LXX Book of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), 13.15:
- "Every beast loveth his like and every man loveth his neighbor. All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will cleave to his like."
Ancillary passage. LXX, Book of Sirach, 36.10-13.
- "And all men are from the ground, and Adam was created of earth. In much knowledge the Lord hath divided them, and made their ways diverse. Some of them hath he blessed and exalted, and some of them hath he sanctified, and set near himself: but some of them hath he cursed and brought low, and turned out of their places. As the clay is in the potter's hand, to fashion it at his pleasure: so man is in the hand of him that made him, to render to them as liketh him best."
Commentary
(For exigesis, comments by Church Fathers or theologians.) Verses 1 thru 9 covers the subject called the Tower of Babel. Christians discern in these verses as God creating different races, ethnicities, and/or nations. The idea of One World Order as evil is derived from these verses. Freemasonry, Communism, and Socialism seek to rebuild this idea of One World government. (q.v. Elem. of Soc. Ideal of international solidarity)
Commentary by User:WHEELER. In view of the original text and the ancillary passages above, God created racial groupings at a specific point in time, in the history of man. Man was at one time "one race". God said it was evil. He divided men into tribes, nations, and/or ethnicities and made these tribal groups diverse in their characteristics which is called racism. He changed the language of the men. Language is the operation of the soul. Hence, differences of character do not reside in genetics (the materialist take or answer) but in the soul. There is a particular national soul for each racial group.
Furthermore, God did not want cooperation between man in order to prevent pride. Split into groups, mankind is to seek God and not their own glory. In this regard, God implanted racial belonging and then consequently, racial prejudice in men. In the understanding of the principle of macrocosm/microcosm, just as there is an aristocracy among a nation's people, there are aristocracies of races as well. As the Book of Sirach, above (i.e. ch 36), points out, some are made to be high and some are low; this expression of heirarchy within mankind is called racialism. (q.v. Ethnocentrism)
Attribution
The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament and Apocrypha, with an English Translation and with Various Readings and Critical Notes, by Sir Lancelot C.L. Brenton, Samuel Bagster and Sons Limited, London. 1851
