Genesis 11

¹Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

²And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

³And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

⁴“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

⁵Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.

⁶And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

⁷Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

⁸So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

⁹That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

¹⁰This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

¹¹And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹²When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.

¹³And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹⁴When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.

¹⁵And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹⁶When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.

¹⁷And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹⁸When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.

¹⁹And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

²⁰When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.

²¹And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

²²When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.

²³And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

²⁴When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.

²⁵And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

²⁶When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

²⁸During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

²⁹And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

³⁰But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

³¹And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

³²Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.

Genesis 11

¹And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,

²and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;

³and they say each one to his neighbour, `Give help, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar.

⁴And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

⁵And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

⁶and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people is one, and one pronunciation is to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

⁷Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

⁸And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;

⁹therefore hath one called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth.

¹⁰These are births of Shem: Shem is a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge.

¹¹And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

¹²And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah.

¹³And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

¹⁴And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber.

¹⁵And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

¹⁶And Eber liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg.

¹⁷And Eber liveth after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

¹⁸And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu.

¹⁹And Peleg liveth after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

²⁰And Reu liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug.

²¹And Reu liveth after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

²²And Serug liveth thirty years, and begetteth Nahor.

²³And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

²⁴And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah.

²⁵And Nahor liveth after his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

²⁶And Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷And these are births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot;

²⁸and Haran dieth in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

²⁹And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife is Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife is Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah.

³⁰And Sarai is barrenshe hath no child.

³¹And Terah taketh Abram his son, and Lot, son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come unto Charan, and dwell there.

³²And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan.