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The Tower of Babel
11Verse 1Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.Verse 2And as people journeyed eastward,+they found a plain in the land of Shinar+and settled there.Verse 3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.Verse 4“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”Verse 5Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.Verse 6And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.Verse 7Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”Verse 8So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.Verse 9That is why it is called Babel,+for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
Genealogy from Shem to Abram
Verse 10This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.Verse 11And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.Verse 12When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.Verse 13And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.+Verse 14When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.Verse 15And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.Verse 16When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.Verse 17And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.Verse 18When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.Verse 19And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.Verse 20When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.Verse 21And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.Verse 22When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.Verse 23And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.Verse 24When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.Verse 25And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.Verse 26When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Terah’s Descendants
Verse 27This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.Verse 28During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.Verse 29And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.Verse 30But Sarai was barren; she had no children.Verse 31And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.Verse 32Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.