11:1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
11:2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
11:3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
11:4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
11:5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
11:6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
11:7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
11:8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
11:9 That is why it was called Babel–because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
11:10 This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
11:11 And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.
11:13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.
11:15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.
11:17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.
11:19 And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.
11:21 And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.
11:23 And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.
11:25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.
11:27 This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
11:28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.
11:29 Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
11:30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no children.
11:31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
11:32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
11:1 And the whole earth had one language and the same speech.
11:2 And as they journeyed east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
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.
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.
11:5 And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men had built.
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.
11:7 Come, let Us go down and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another s speech.
11:8 So Jehovah scattered them from there over the surface of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
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.
11:10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old when he begot Arpachshad, two years after the flood.
11:11 And Shem lived after he had begotten Arpachshad five hundred years, and he begot more sons and daughters.
11:12 And Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and begot Shelah.
11:13 And Arpachshad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred three years, and he begot more sons and daughters.
11:14 And Shelah lived thirty years and begot Eber.
11:15 And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred three years, and he begot more sons and daughters.
11:16 And Eber lived thirty-four years and begot Peleg.
11:17 And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred thirty years, and he begot more sons and daughters.
11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years and begot Reu.
11:19 And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred nine years, and he begot more sons and daughters.
11:20 And Reu lived thirty-two years and begot Serug.
11:21 And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred seven years, and he begot more sons and daughters.
11:22 And Serug lived thirty years and begot Nahor.
11:23 And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and he begot more sons and daughters.
11:24 And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and begot Terah.
11:25 And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah one hundred nineteen years, and he begot more sons and daughters.
11:26 And Terah lived seventy years and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
11:27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begot Lot.
11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
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.
11:30 And Sarai was barren; she had no child.
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.
11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred five years, and Terah died in Haran.