11:1 | | And all the earth had one language and one tongue. |
11:2 | | And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place. |
11:3 | | And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth. |
11:4 | | And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth. |
11:5 | | And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building. |
11:6 | | And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs. |
11:7 | | Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another. |
11:8 | | So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town. |
11:9 | | So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth. |
11:10 | | These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters; |
11:11 | | And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters: |
11:12 | | And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah: |
11:13 | | And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters: |
11:14 | | And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber: |
11:15 | | And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters: |
11:16 | | And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg: |
11:17 | | And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters: |
11:18 | | And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu: |
11:19 | | And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters: |
11:20 | | And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug: |
11:21 | | And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters: |
11:22 | | And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor: |
11:23 | | And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters: |
11:24 | | And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah: |
11:25 | | And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters: |
11:26 | | And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. |
11:27 | | These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. |
11:28 | | And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees. |
11:29 | | 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, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. |
11:30 | | And Sarai had no child. |
11:31 | | And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time. |
11:32 | | And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran. |