Genesis 11
1 And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
2 And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they lived there.
And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3 And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
And 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 And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.
“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.”
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
6 And the Lord said, Behold, [there is] one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.
And 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.
7 Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
8 And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.
That 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.
10 And these [are] the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
11 And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.
13 And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Canaan lived after he had begotten Sala, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
14 And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.
15 And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.
17 And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.
19 And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 And Ragau lived and hundred and thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.
21 And Raau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.
23 And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
25 And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.
And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
28 And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.
During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29 And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sara, and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of Arrhan, and he was the father of Malcha, the father of Jescha.
And 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.
30 And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
31 And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan, and they came as far as Charrhan, and he lived there.
And 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.
32 And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.
Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
