Genesis 11
1 And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.
And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
2 And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.
And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they lived there.
3 And 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.
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.
4 And 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.
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.
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
6 And 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.
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.
7 Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.
8 And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.
And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
9 And 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.
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.
10 These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood.
And these [are] the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
11 And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
12 And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale.
And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
13 And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three years; and begot sons and daughters.
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.
14 Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber.
And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
15 And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three years; and begot sons and daughters.
And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
16 And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
17 And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four hundred and thirty years: and begot sons and daughters.
And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
18 Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
19 And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
20 And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Sarug.
And Ragau lived and hundred and thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
21 And Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Raau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
22 And Sarug lived thirty years, and begot Nachor.
And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
23 And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, two hundred years: and begot sons and daughters.
And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
24 And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.
And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
25 And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen years: and begot sons and daughters.
And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.
26 And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Aran.
And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
27 And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and Aran. And Aran begot Lot.
And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
28 And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees.
And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.
29 And 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.
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.
30 And Sarai was barren, and had no children.
And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
31 And 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.
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.
32 And the days of Thare were two hundred and five years, and he died in Haran.
And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.
