Genesis 11
1 And the whole earth is of one language, and of the same words,
At that time the whole world spoke just one language and used words with the same meaning.
2 and it comes to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar and dwell there;
As they moved east they discovered a plain in the land of Shinar so they settled there.
3 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.
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 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.”
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 YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;
But the Lord came down to take a look at the city and the tower that the people were building.
6 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.
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 Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”
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 YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
The Lord sent them away from there and scattered them all over the world, and they gave up building the city.
9 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.
That's why it was called Babel, because the Lord made the language of the world confused.
10 These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [is] a son of one hundred years, and begets Arphaxad two years 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 Shem lives after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
Shem lived another 500 years after Arphaxad was born and had other sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad has lived thirty-five years [[or one hundred and thirty-five years]], and begets Salah.
When Arphaxad was 35, he had Shelah.
13 And Arphaxad lives after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years [[or four hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
Arphaxad lived another 403 years after Shelah was born and had other sons and daughters.
14 And Salah has lived thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Eber.
When Shelah was 30, he had Eber.
15 And Salah lives after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years [[or three hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
Shelah lived another 403 years after Eber was born and had other sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lives thirty-four years [[or one hundred and thirty-four years]], and begets Peleg.
When Eber was 34, he had Peleg.
17 And Eber lives after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years [[or three hundred and seventy years]], and begets sons and daughters.
Eber lived another 430 years after Peleg was born and had other sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Reu.
When Peleg was 30, he had Reu.
19 And Peleg lives after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begets sons and daughters.
Peleg lived another 209 years after Reu was born and had other sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lives thirty-two years [[or one hundred and thirty-two years]], and begets Serug.
When Reu was 32, he had Serug.
21 And Reu lives after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begets sons and daughters.
Reu lived another 207 years after Serug was born and had other sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Nahor.
When Serug was 30, he had Nahor.
23 And Serug lives after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
Serug lived another 200 years after Nahor was born and had other sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.
When Nahor was 29, he had Terah.
25 And Nahor lives after his begetting Terah one hundred and nineteen years [[or one hundred and twenty-nine years]], and begets sons and daughters.
Nahor lived another 119 years after Terah was born and had other sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lives seventy years, and begets Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
When Terah was 70, he had Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 And these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah has begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran has begotten 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 Haran dies in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur 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 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.
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 Sarai is barren—she has no child.
Sarai wasn't able to become pregnant and so had no children.
31 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.
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 the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dies in Haran.
Terah lived for 205 years and died in Haran.
