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Genesis Chapter 11

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GENESIS

Genesis 11

1And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.
Acts 2:6, Acts 2:6, Zephaniah 3:9, Zephaniah 3:9, Isaiah 19:18
2And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.
Genesis 10:10, Genesis 10:10, Daniel 1:2, Daniel 1:2, Genesis 14:1
3And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:
Genesis 14:10, Genesis 14:10, Exodus 1:14, Exodus 2:3, Exodus 1:14
4And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
Deuteronomy 1:28, Deuteronomy 1:28, John 5:44, John 5:44, Luke 1:51
5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.
Genesis 18:21, Genesis 18:21, Psalms 33:13, Psalms 33:14, John 3:13
6And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.
Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:4, Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:4, Genesis 3:22
7Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Psalms 33:10, Psalms 33:10, Psalms 55:9, Psalms 55:9, Job 5:12
8And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.
Luke 1:51, Luke 1:51, Deuteronomy 32:8, Deuteronomy 32:8, Genesis 10:25
9And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.
Genesis 10:10, Genesis 10:10, Genesis 10:5, Genesis 10:20, Genesis 10:5
10These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood.
1 Chronicles 1:17, 1 Chronicles 1:27, 1 Chronicles 1:17, 1 Chronicles 1:27, Genesis 11:27
11And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
Genesis 9:7, Genesis 9:7, Psalms 127:3, Psalms 127:4, Psalms 128:3
12And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale.
Luke 3:36, Luke 3:36
13And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
14Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber.
15And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three years: and begot sons and daughters.
16And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
1 Chronicles 1:19, Genesis 10:21, Genesis 10:25, Numbers 24:24, Luke 3:35
17And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four hundred and thirty years: and begot sons and daughters.
18Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
Luke 3:35, Luke 3:35
19And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
20And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Sarug.
Luke 3:35, Luke 3:35
21And Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
22And Sarug lived thirty years, and begot Nachor.
Joshua 24:2, Joshua 24:2
23And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
24And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.
Luke 3:34, Luke 3:34, Joshua 24:2, Joshua 24:2
25And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
26And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Aran.
Joshua 24:2, Joshua 24:2, 1 Chronicles 1:26, 1 Chronicles 1:27, 1 Chronicles 1:26
27And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and Aran. And Aran begot Lot.
Genesis 12:4, Genesis 11:31, Genesis 14:12, Genesis 12:4, Genesis 11:31
28And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees.
Genesis 15:7, Genesis 15:7, Genesis 11:31, Acts 7:2, Acts 7:4
29And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor's wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melcha and father of Jescha.
Genesis 22:20, Genesis 17:15, Genesis 22:20, Genesis 17:15, Genesis 24:15
30And Sarai was barren, and had no children.
1 Samuel 1:2, Genesis 21:1, Genesis 21:2, Luke 1:36, Genesis 29:31
31And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.
Nehemiah 9:7, Nehemiah 9:7, Acts 7:2, Acts 7:4, Acts 7:2
32And the days of Thare were two hundred and five years, and he died in Haran.

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