Genesis 11
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
And all the earth had one language and one tongue.
2 And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.
3 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.
And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
4 “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.”
And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.
5 Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
6 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.
And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.
7 Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.
9 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.
So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.
10 This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;
11 And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
12 When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.
And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:
13 And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:
14 When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.
And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:
15 And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:
16 When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.
And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:
17 And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:
18 When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.
And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:
19 And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters:
20 When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.
And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:
21 And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:
22 When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.
And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:
23 And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
24 When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:
25 And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:
26 When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.
28 During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.
29 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.
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.
30 But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
And Sarai had no child.
31 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.
And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.
32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.
