Genesis 11
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
And the whole earth is of one language, and of the same words,
2 And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
and it comes to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar and dwell there;
3 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.
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.
4 And they said, come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we should be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
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.”
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men were building.
And YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
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.
7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD there confounded the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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.
10 These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] a hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [is] a son of one hundred years, and begets Arphaxad two years after the flood.
11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Shem lives after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah.
And Arphaxad has lived thirty-five years [[or one hundred and thirty-five years]], and begets Salah.
13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Arphaxad lives after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years [[or four hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
And Salah has lived thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Eber.
15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Salah lives after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years [[or three hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
And Eber lives thirty-four years [[or one hundred and thirty-four years]], and begets Peleg.
17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Eber lives after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years [[or three hundred and seventy years]], and begets sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
And Peleg lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Reu.
19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Peleg lives after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begets sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug.
And Reu lives thirty-two years [[or one hundred and thirty-two years]], and begets Serug.
21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Reu lives after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begets sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
And Serug lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Nahor.
23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Serug lives after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah.
And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.
25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Nahor lives after his begetting Terah one hundred and nineteen years [[or one hundred and twenty-nine years]], and begets sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
And Terah lives seventy years, and begets Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and Haran begat Lot.
And these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah has begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran has begotten Lot;
28 And Haran died before his father Terah, in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
and Haran dies in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 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.
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 But Sarai [was] barren; she had no child.
And Sarai is barren—she has no child.
31 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 to Haran, and dwelt there.
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.
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dies in Haran.
