Genesis 11
1 And the whole earth is of one language, and of the same words,
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
2 and it comes to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar and dwell there;
It happened, as they traveled from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they settled there.
3 and they each say to his neighbor, “Give help, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly”: and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen has been to them for mortar.
And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
4 And they say, “Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower with its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
5 And YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, that humankind was building.
6 and YHWH says, “Behold, the people [is] one, and one language [is] to them all, and this it has dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.
The LORD said, "Look, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. So now nothing which they plan to do will be too difficult for them.
7 Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”
Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
8 And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
Then God scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth; so they ceased building the city.
9 therefore [one] has called its name Babel, for there YHWH has confused the language of all the earth, and from there YHWH has scattered them over the face of all the earth.
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there God confused the language of all the earth. From there he scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
10 These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [is] a son of one hundred years, and begets Arphaxad two years after the flood.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
11 And Shem lives after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and fathered sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad has lived thirty-five years [[or one hundred and thirty-five years]], and begets Salah.
And Arpachshad lived one hundred and thirty-five years and became the father of Kenan.
13 And Arphaxad lives after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years [[or four hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
And Arpachshad lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Kenan, and fathered sons and daughters. And Kenan lived one hundred and thirty years and became the father of Shelah. And Kenan lived three hundred and thirty years after he had become the father of Shelah, and fathered sons and daughters.
14 And Salah has lived thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Eber.
Shelah lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
15 And Salah lives after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years [[or three hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and fathered sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lives thirty-four years [[or one hundred and thirty-four years]], and begets Peleg.
Eber lived one hundred and thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
17 And Eber lives after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years [[or three hundred and seventy years]], and begets sons and daughters.
Eber lived three hundred and seventy years after he became the father of Peleg, and fathered sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Reu.
Peleg lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
19 And Peleg lives after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begets sons and daughters.
Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and fathered sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lives thirty-two years [[or one hundred and thirty-two years]], and begets Serug.
Reu lived one hundred and thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
21 And Reu lives after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begets sons and daughters.
Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and fathered sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Nahor.
Serug lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
23 And Serug lives after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and fathered sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.
Nahor lived seventy-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
25 And Nahor lives after his begetting Terah one hundred and nineteen years [[or one hundred and twenty-nine years]], and begets sons and daughters.
Nahor lived one hundred and twenty-nine years after he became the father of Terah, and fathered sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lives seventy years, and begets Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 And these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah has begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran has begotten Lot;
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
28 and Haran dies in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur Kasdim.
29 And 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.
And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.
30 And Sarai is barren—she has no child.
And Sarai was barren. She had no child.
31 And Terah takes his son Abram, and Lot, son of Haran, his son’s son, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, wife of his son Abram, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go toward the land of Canaan; and they come to Haran, and dwell there.
And Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and with them he set out from Ur Kasdim to go into the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
32 And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dies in Haran.
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. And Terah died in Haran.
