Genesis 11
1 And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,
And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
2 and it cometh 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 moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they lived there.
3 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.
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 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.'
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 Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
6 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.
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 Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.
8 And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease 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 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.
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] births of Shem: Shem [is] a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge.
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 liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
12 And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah.
And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
13 And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth 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 Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber.
And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
15 And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth 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 liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg.
And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
17 And Eber liveth after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth 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 liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu.
And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
19 And Peleg liveth after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begetteth 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 liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug.
And Ragau lived and hundred and thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
21 And Reu liveth after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begetteth 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 liveth thirty years, and begetteth Nahor.
And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
23 And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
24 And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah.
And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
25 And Nahor liveth after his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begetteth 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 Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
27 And these [are] births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot;
And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
28 and Haran dieth in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, 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 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 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 And Sarai is barren — she hath no child.
And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
31 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.
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 Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan.
And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.
