Genesis 11
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And the whole earth was of one lip and of one speech. 2 And it happened, as
they pulled up stakes from the east, they found a level valley in the land of
Shinar. And they lived there. 3 And each one said to his neighbor, Come, let us
make brick, and burning burn them. And they had brick for stone, and they had
asphalt for mortar. 4 And they said, Come, let us build a city and a tower with
its head in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves, that we not be scattered
on the face of all the earth. 5 And Jehovah came down to see the city and the
tower which the sons of Adam had built. 6 And Jehovah said, Behold, the people
is one, and the lip one to all of them, and this they are beginning to do, and
now all which they have purposed to do will not be restrained from them. 7
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language so that they cannot understand
one another's speech. 8 And Jehovah scattered them from there, over the face of
all the earth. And they stopped building the city. 9 On account of this its
name is called Babel, because Jehovah confused the language of all the earth
there. And Jehovah scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the
earth. 10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a son of a hundred years
and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. 11 And after he fathered
Arpachshad, Shem lived five hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.
12 And Arpachshad lived thirty five years and fathered Salah. 13 And after he
fathered Salah, Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years. And he fathered
sons and daughters. 14 And Salah lived thirty years and fathered Eber. 15 And
after he fathered Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years. And he
fathered sons and daughters. 16 And Eber lived thirty four years and fathered
Peleg. 17 And after he fathered Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty
years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 18 And Peleg lived thirty years and
fathered Reu. 19 And after he fathered Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years. And he
fathered sons and daughters. 20 And Reu lived thirty
two years and fathered Serug. 21 And after he
fathered Serug, Reu lived
two hundred and seven years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 22 And Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nahor.
23 And after he fathered Nahor, Serug
lived two hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 24 And Nahor lived twenty nine years and fathered Terah. 25 And after he fathered Terah,
Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years. And he fathered
sons and daughters. 26 And Terah lived seventy years
and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 And these
are the generations of Terah: Terah
fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran fathered
Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the
land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 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 the
father of Iscah. 30 And Sarai was barren; there was
no child to her. 31 And Terah took his son Abram, and
Lot, Haran's son, his grandson and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's
wife. And he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land
of Canaan. And they came to Haran and lived there. 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.