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 east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.Select Genesis 11:2

3And 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.Select Genesis 11:3

4And 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.'Select Genesis 11:4

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

6And 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.Select Genesis 11:6

7Come, 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 thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.Select Genesis 11:8

9Therefore 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.Select Genesis 11:9

10These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arpachshad two years after the flood.Select Genesis 11:10

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

12And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begot Shelah.Select Genesis 11:12

13And Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:13

14And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.Select Genesis 11:14

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

28And Haran died in the presence of 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

30And 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 unto Haran, and dwelt 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