Genesis 11
1 And all the earth had one language and one tongue.
And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
2 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.
And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they lived there.
3 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.
And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
4 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.
And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.
5 And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
6 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.
And the Lord said, Behold, [there is] one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.
7 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.
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.
8 So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.
And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
9 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.
On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.
10 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;
And these [are] the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
11 And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
12 And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:
And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
13 And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:
And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Canaan lived after he had begotten Sala, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
14 And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:
And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
15 And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:
And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
16 And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:
And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
17 And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:
And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
18 And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:
And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
19 And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters:
And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
20 And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:
And Ragau lived and hundred and thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
21 And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:
And Raau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
22 And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:
And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
23 And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
24 And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:
And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
25 And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:
And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.
26 And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
27 These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.
And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
28 And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.
And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.
29 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.
And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sara, and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of Arrhan, and he was the father of Malcha, the father of Jescha.
30 And Sarai had no child.
And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
31 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.
And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan, and they came as far as Charrhan, and he lived there.
32 And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.
And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.
