Genesis 11
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one kind of words.
And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed toward the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
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 to one another, Go to, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And thus the brick served them for stone, and slime served them for mortar.
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, Go to, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower, the top of which may reach unto heaven; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole 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 city and the tower, which the children of man 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, Behold, it is one people, and they have all one language, and this is the first thing they undertake to do; and now shall they not be restrained in all which they have imagined to do?
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 Go to, let us go down, and confound there their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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 scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from there did the Lord scatter them abroad over the face of all 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, when a hundred years old, begat Arpachshad, two years after the flood.
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 Shem lived after he had begotten Arpachshad five hundred years; and begat sons and daughters.
And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
12 And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelach.
And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
13 And Arpachshad lived after he had begotten Shelach four hundred and three years; and begat 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 Shelach lived thirty years, and begat Eber.
And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
15 And Shelach lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years; and begat 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 lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg.
And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
17 And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years; and begat 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 lived thirty years, and begat Reu.
And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
19 And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years; and begat 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 lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug.
And Ragau lived and hundred and thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
21 And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years; and begat 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 lived thirty years, and begat Nachor.
And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
23 And Serug lived after he had begotten Nachor two hundred years; and begat sons and daughters.
And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
24 And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terach.
And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
25 And Nachor lived after he had begotten Terach a hundred and nineteen years; and begat 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 Terach lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran.
And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
27 Now these are the generations of Terach: Terach begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
28 And Haran died before his father Terach in the land of his nativity, in 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 Nachor took themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nachor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Yiscah.
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 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
31 And Terach took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Charan, and dwelt there.
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 the days of Terach were two hundred and five years; and Terach died in Charan.
And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.
