Genesis


11:1
 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.


11:2
 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.


11:3
 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.


11:4
 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.


11:5
 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.


11:6
 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.


11:7
 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.


11:8
 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.


11:9
 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.


11:10
 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:


11:11
 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.


11:12
 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:


11:13
 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.


11:14
 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:


11:15
 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.


11:16
 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:


11:17
 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.


11:18
 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:


11:19
 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.


11:20
 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:


11:21
 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.


11:22
 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:


11:23
 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.


11:24
 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:


11:25
 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.


11:26
 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.


11:27
 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.


11:28
 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.


11:29
 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.


11:30
 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.


11:31
 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.


11:32
 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.