Genesis 11
1 And the whole earth is of one language, and of the same words,
And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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;
And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt 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.
And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
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.”
And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'
5 And YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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.
And the LORD said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
7 Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'
8 And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build 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.
Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
10 These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [is] a son of one hundred years, and begets Arphaxad two years after the flood.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arpachshad two years after the flood.
11 And Shem lives after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
And Shem lived after he begot Arpachshad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad has lived thirty-five years [[or one hundred and thirty-five years]], and begets Salah.
And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begot 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.
And Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
14 And Salah has lived thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Eber.
And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot 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.
And Shelah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lives thirty-four years [[or one hundred and thirty-four years]], and begets Peleg.
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot 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.
And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Reu.
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
19 And Peleg lives after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begets sons and daughters.
And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lives thirty-two years [[or one hundred and thirty-two years]], and begets Serug.
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug.
21 And Reu lives after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begets sons and daughters.
And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Nahor.
And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
23 And Serug lives after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot 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.
And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lives seventy years, and begets Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 And these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah has begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran has begotten Lot;
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.
28 and Haran dies in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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.
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
30 And Sarai is barren—she has no child.
And Sarai was barren; she had no child.
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.
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
32 And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dies in Haran.
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.
