Genesis 11 — NETB

11Verse 1The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.^{Verse 2}When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.^{Verse 3}Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)^{Verse 4}Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”^{Verse 5}But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.^{Verse 6}And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.^{Verse 7}Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”^{Verse 8}So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.^{Verse 9}That is why its name was called Babel – because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

The Genealogy of Shem

^{Verse 10}This is the account of Shem. Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.^{Verse 11}And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.^{Verse 12}When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.^{Verse 13}And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.^{Verse 14}When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.^{Verse 15}And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.^{Verse 16}When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.^{Verse 17}And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.^{Verse 18}When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.^{Verse 19}And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.^{Verse 20}When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.^{Verse 21}And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.^{Verse 22}When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.^{Verse 23}And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.^{Verse 24}When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.^{Verse 25}And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.^{Verse 26}When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

The Record of Terah

^{Verse 27}This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.^{Verse 28}Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was still alive.^{Verse 29}And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.^{Verse 30}But Sarai was barren; she had no children.^{Verse 31}Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.^{Verse 32}The lifetime of Terah was 205 years, and he died in Haran.