Genesis 11
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And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words, 2 and it
cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in
the land of Shinar, and dwell there; 3 and they say each one to his neighbour, `Give help, let us make bricks, and burn [them]
thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to
them for mortar. 4 And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city
and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we
be scattered over the face of all the earth.' 5 And Jehovah cometh down to see
the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;
6 and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people [is] one, and
one pronunciation [is] to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now,
nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do. 7 Give
help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth
not understand the pronunciation of his companion.' 8 And Jehovah doth scatter
them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the
city; 9 therefore hath [one] called its name *Babel, for
there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence
hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth. 10 These [are]
births of Shem: Shem [is] a son of an hundred years, and begetteth
Arphaxad two years after the deluge. 11 And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad
five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and
begetteth Salah. 13 And Arphaxad
liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and
three years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 14 And
Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber. 15
And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four
hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and
daughters. 16 And Eber liveth four and thirty years,
and begetteth Peleg. 17 And Eber liveth
after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 18 And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth
Reu. 19 And Peleg liveth
after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years,
and begetteth sons and daughters. 20 And Reu liveth two and thirty years,
and begetteth Serug. 21 And
Reu liveth after his
begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 22 And Serug
liveth thirty years, and begetteth
Nahor. 23 And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor
two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor liveth nine
and twenty years, and begetteth Terah.
25 And Nahor liveth after
his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years,
and begetteth sons and daughters. 26 And Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth Abram, Nahor, and
Haran. 27 And these [are] births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor,
and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot; 28 and Haran dieth
in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of
his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29 And Abram and Nahor
take to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife [is] Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife [is] Milcah,
daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah. 30 And Sarai is barren--she hath no child. 31 And Terah taketh Abram his son, and Lot, son of Haran, his
son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and they go
out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go towards the land of Canaan; and
they come unto *Charan, and dwell there. 32 And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan.