| Gen. 11:1 |
And the whole earth had one language and the same speech. |
| Gen. 11:2 |
And as they journeyed east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. |
| Gen. 11:3 |
And they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and burn [them] thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had tar for mortar. |
| Gen. 11:4 |
And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens; and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the surface of the whole earth. |
| Gen. 11:5 |
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men had built. |
| Gen. 11:6 |
And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language; and this is [only] the beginning of what they will do; and now nothing which they purpose to do will be kept from them. |
| Gen. 11:7 |
Come, let Us go down and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. |
| Gen. 11:8 |
So Jehovah scattered them from there over the surface of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. |
| Gen. 11:9 |
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Jehovah confounded the language of all the earth, and from there Jehovah scattered them over the surface of all the earth. |
| Gen. 11:10 |
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old when he begot Arpachshad, two years after the flood. |
| Gen. 11:11 |
And Shem lived after he had begotten Arpachshad five hundred years, and he begot [more] sons and daughters. |
| Gen. 11:12 |
And Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and begot Shelah. |
| Gen. 11:13 |
And Arpachshad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred three years, and he begot [more] sons and daughters. |
| Gen. 11:14 |
And Shelah lived thirty years and begot Eber. |
| Gen. 11:15 |
And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred three years, and he begot [more] sons and daughters. |
| Gen. 11:16 |
And Eber lived thirty-four years and begot Peleg. |
| Gen. 11:17 |
And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred thirty years, and he begot [more] sons and daughters. |
| Gen. 11:18 |
And Peleg lived thirty years and begot Reu. |
| Gen. 11:19 |
And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred nine years, and he begot [more] sons and daughters. |
| Gen. 11:20 |
And Reu lived thirty-two years and begot Serug. |
| Gen. 11:21 |
And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred seven years, and he begot [more] sons and daughters. |
| Gen. 11:22 |
And Serug lived thirty years and begot Nahor. |
| Gen. 11:23 |
And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and he begot [more] sons and daughters. |
| Gen. 11:24 |
And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and begot Terah. |
| Gen. 11:25 |
And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah one hundred nineteen years, and he begot [more] sons and daughters. |
| Gen. 11:26 |
And Terah lived seventy years and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. |
| Gen. 11:27 |
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begot Lot. |
| Gen. 11:28 |
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. |
| Gen. 11:29 |
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. |
| Gen. 11:30 |
And Sarai was barren; she had no child. |
| Gen. 11:31 |
And Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran they settled there. |
| Gen. 11:32 |
And the days of Terah were two hundred five years, and Terah died in Haran. |