Genesis 11
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
And the whole earth is of one language, and of the same words,
2 And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
and it comes to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar and dwell there;
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 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.
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 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.”
5 Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
And YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;
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 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.
7 Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
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.
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.
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 [is] a son of one hundred years, and begets Arphaxad two years after the flood.
11 And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Shem lives after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
12 When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.
And Arphaxad has lived thirty-five years [[or one hundred and thirty-five years]], and begets Salah.
13 And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Arphaxad lives after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years [[or four hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
14 When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.
And Salah has lived thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Eber.
15 And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Salah lives after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years [[or three hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
16 When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.
And Eber lives thirty-four years [[or one hundred and thirty-four years]], and begets Peleg.
17 And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Eber lives after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years [[or three hundred and seventy years]], and begets sons and daughters.
18 When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.
And Peleg lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Reu.
19 And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Peleg lives after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begets sons and daughters.
20 When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.
And Reu lives thirty-two years [[or one hundred and thirty-two years]], and begets Serug.
21 And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Reu lives after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begets sons and daughters.
22 When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.
And Serug lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Nahor.
23 And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Serug lives after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
24 When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.
25 And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Nahor lives after his begetting Terah one hundred and nineteen years [[or one hundred and twenty-nine years]], and begets sons and daughters.
26 When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
And Terah lives seventy years, and begets 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.
And these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah has begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran has begotten Lot;
28 During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
and Haran dies in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in 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 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.
30 But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
And Sarai is barren—she has 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 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.
32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dies in Haran.
