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go<00:13:02.899><c> forth</c><00:13:03.299><c> and</c><00:13:03.539><c> to</c><00:13:03.759><c> multiply.</c>

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Noah's<00:13:31.620><c> great</c><00:13:31.960><c>-grandson,</c><00:13:32.919><c> Nimrod,</c><00:13:33.220><c> created</c><00:13:33.679><c> a</c><00:13:33.940><c> kingdom</c><00:13:34.259><c> for</c>

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And<00:13:42.159><c> even</c><00:13:42.340><c> though</c><00:13:42.720><c> mankind</c><00:13:43.419><c> was</c><00:13:43.720><c> supposed</c><00:13:44.080><c> to</c><00:13:44.220><c> go</c><00:13:44.580><c> forth,</c><00:13:46.000><c> they</c><00:13:46.460><c> congregated</c><00:13:47.220><c> in</c><00:13:47.600><c> Babylon.</c>

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itself,<00:14:05.740><c> God</c><00:14:06.419><c> scattered</c><00:14:07.200><c> the</c><00:14:07.480><c> people.</c>

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see<00:19:17.079><c> now.</c>

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