Genesis 11
1 And all the earth had one language and one tongue.
And the whole earth is of one language, and of the same words,
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 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 one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
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 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 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 And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children 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, 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 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 take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
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 God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.
And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
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.
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 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;
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 the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
And Shem lives after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
12 And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when 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 the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had 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 And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:
And Salah has lived thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Eber.
15 And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had 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 And Eber was thirty-four years old when 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 the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had 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 And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:
And Peleg lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Reu.
19 And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters:
And Peleg lives after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begets sons and daughters.
20 And Reu was thirty-two years old when 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 the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:
And Reu lives after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begets sons and daughters.
22 And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:
And Serug lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Nahor.
23 And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
And Serug lives after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:
And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.
25 And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had 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 And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
And Terah lives seventy years, and begets Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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 Terah: Terah has begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran has begotten 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 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: 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 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 And Sarai had no child.
And Sarai is barren—she has no child.
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 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 And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.
And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dies in Haran.
