Genesis 11
1 And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.
And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,
2 And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.
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 each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime 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 And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
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 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.
And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;
6 And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.
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 ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may 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 And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.
And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
9 And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.
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 These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood.
These [are] births of Shem: Shem [is] a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge.
11 And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale.
And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah.
13 And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three years; and begot sons and daughters.
And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
14 Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber.
And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber.
15 And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three years; and begot sons and daughters.
And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
16 And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
And Eber liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg.
17 And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four hundred and thirty years: and begot sons and daughters.
And Eber liveth after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
18 Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu.
19 And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Peleg liveth after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Sarug.
And Reu liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug.
21 And Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Reu liveth after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
22 And Sarug lived thirty years, and begot Nachor.
And Serug liveth thirty years, and begetteth Nahor.
23 And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, two hundred years: and begot sons and daughters.
And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
24 And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.
And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah.
25 And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen years: and begot sons and daughters.
And Nahor liveth after his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
26 And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Aran.
And Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and Aran. And Aran begot Lot.
And these [are] births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot;
28 And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees.
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 Nachor married wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor’s wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melcha, and father of Jescha.
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 was barren, and had no children.
And Sarai is barren — she hath no child.
31 And Thare took Abram, his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt 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 And the days of Thare were two hundred and five years, and he died in Haran.
And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan.
