< Genesis 11 >

1 Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, 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 cometh 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 say each one to his neighbour, 'Give help, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath 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, and 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 Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;
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 Jehovah saith, 'Lo, the people [is] one, and one pronunciation [is] to them all, and this it hath 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, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation 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 Jehovah doth scatter them from thence 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 hath [one] called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah 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] births of Shem: Shem [is] a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge.
11 And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
12 When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.
And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah.
13 And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
14 When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.
And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber.
15 And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
16 When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.
And Eber liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg.
17 And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Eber liveth after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
18 When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.
And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu.
19 And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Peleg liveth after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
20 When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.
And Reu liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug.
21 And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Reu liveth after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
22 When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.
And Serug liveth thirty years, and begetteth Nahor.
23 And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
24 When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah.
25 And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Nahor liveth after his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
26 When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
And Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth 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] births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot;
28 During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
and Haran dieth 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 hath 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 taketh Abram his son, and Lot, son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come unto Charan, 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 dieth in Charan.

< Genesis 11 >