11Genesis 11

1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.Select Genesis 11:1

2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelled there.Select Genesis 11:2

3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.Select Genesis 11:3

4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth.Select Genesis 11:4

5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.Select Genesis 11:5

6And 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.Select Genesis 11:6

7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.Select Genesis 11:7

8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.Select Genesis 11:8

9Therefore 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 on the face of all the earth. ¶Select Genesis 11:9

10These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:Select Genesis 11:10

11And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:11

12And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:Select Genesis 11:12

13And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:13

14And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:Select Genesis 11:14

15And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:15

16And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:Select Genesis 11:16

17And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:17

18And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:Select Genesis 11:18

19And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:19

20And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:Select Genesis 11:20

21And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:21

22And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:Select Genesis 11:22

23And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:23

24And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:Select Genesis 11:24

25And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:25

26And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. ¶Select Genesis 11:26

27Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.Select Genesis 11:27

28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.Select Genesis 11:28

29And 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.Select Genesis 11:29

30But Sarai was barren; she had no child.Select Genesis 11:30

31And 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 dwelled there.Select Genesis 11:31

32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.Select Genesis 11:32