Genesis 11
1 And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
At that time the whole world spoke just one language and used words with the same meaning.
2 And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they dwelt there.
As they moved east they discovered a plain in the land of Shinar so they settled there.
3 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.
They said to one another, “Come on, let's make some bricks and bake them with fire.” (They used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of cement).
4 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.
Then they said, “Now let's build a city for ourselves with a tower whose top reaches the heavens. That way we'll gain a great reputation and we won't end up being scattered all over the world.”
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
But the Lord came down to take a look at the city and the tower that the people were building.
6 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.
The Lord said, “Look! These people are united and they all speak one language. If this is what they can do now when they're just getting started, nothing will be impossible for them when they all put their minds to it!
7 Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.
We need to go down and mix up their language and make it confused so they won't be able to understand what they're saying to one other.”
8 And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
The Lord sent them away from there and scattered them all over the world, and they gave up building the city.
9 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.
That's why it was called Babel, because the Lord made the language of the world confused.
10 And these [are] the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
The following is the genealogy of Shem. When Shem was 100, he had Arphaxad. This was two years after the flood.
11 And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
Shem lived another 500 years after Arphaxad was born and had other sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
When Arphaxad was 35, he had Shelah.
13 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.
Arphaxad lived another 403 years after Shelah was born and had other sons and daughters.
14 And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
When Shelah was 30, he had Eber.
15 And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
Shelah lived another 403 years after Eber was born and had other sons and daughters.
16 And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
When Eber was 34, he had Peleg.
17 And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
Eber lived another 430 years after Peleg was born and had other sons and daughters.
18 And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
When Peleg was 30, he had Reu.
19 And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
Peleg lived another 209 years after Reu was born and had other sons and daughters.
20 And Ragau lived and hundred thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
When Reu was 32, he had Serug.
21 And Raau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
Reu lived another 207 years after Serug was born and had other sons and daughters.
22 And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
When Serug was 30, he had Nahor.
23 And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
Serug lived another 200 years after Nahor was born and had other sons and daughters.
24 And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
When Nahor was 29, he had Terah.
25 And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.
Nahor lived another 119 years after Terah was born and had other sons and daughters.
26 And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
When Terah was 70, he had Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
The following is the genealogy of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran was the father of Lot.
28 And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.
However, Haran died while his father, Terah, was still alive, in Ur of the Chaldeans, the land of his birth.
29 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.
Abram and Nahor both got married. 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).
30 And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
Sarai wasn't able to become pregnant and so had no children.
31 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 dwelt there.
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, (who was the son of Haran), his daughter-in-law Sarai, (the wife of his son Abram), and left Ur of the Chaldeans to move to the land of Canaan. They got as far as Haran and settled there.
32 And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.
Terah lived for 205 years and died in Haran.
