11Genesis 11

1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.Select Genesis 11:1

2As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.Select Genesis 11:2

3They said one to another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.Select Genesis 11:3

4They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”Select Genesis 11:4

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

6Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.Select Genesis 11:6

7Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”Select Genesis 11:7

8So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.Select Genesis 11:8

9Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.Select Genesis 11:9

10This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.Select Genesis 11:10

11Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:11

12Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.Select Genesis 11:12

13Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:13

14Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:Select Genesis 11:14

15and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:15

16Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.Select Genesis 11:16

17Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:17

18Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.Select Genesis 11:18

19Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:19

20Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.Select Genesis 11:20

21Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:21

22Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.Select Genesis 11:22

23Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:23

24Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.Select Genesis 11:24

25Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.Select Genesis 11:25

26Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.Select Genesis 11:26

27Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.Select Genesis 11:27

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

29Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.Select Genesis 11:29

30Sarai was barren. She had no child.Select Genesis 11:30

31Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.Select Genesis 11:31

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