Genesis11

¹Now all the earth used the same language and the same words.

²And it came about, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

³Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and fire them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

⁴And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth.”

⁵Now the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the men had built.

⁶And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they have started to do, and now nothing which they plan to do will be impossible for them.

⁷Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

⁸So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they stopped building the city.

⁹Therefore it was named Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

¹⁰These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood;

¹¹and Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arpachshad, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

¹²Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and fathered Shelah;

¹³and Arpachshad lived 403 years after he fathered Shelah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

¹⁴Shelah lived thirty years, and fathered Eber;

¹⁵and Shelah lived 403 years after he fathered Eber, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

¹⁶Eber lived thirty-four years, and fathered Peleg;

¹⁷and Eber lived 430 years after he fathered Peleg, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

¹⁸Peleg lived thirty years, and fathered Reu;

¹⁹and Peleg lived 209 years after he fathered Reu, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

²⁰Reu lived thirty-two years, and fathered Serug;

²¹and Reu lived 207 years after he fathered Serug, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

²²Serug lived thirty years, and fathered Nahor;

²³and Serug lived two hundred years after he fathered Nahor, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

²⁴Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and fathered Terah;

²⁵and Nahor lived 119 years after he fathered Terah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

²⁶Terah lived seventy years, and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

²⁸Haran died during the lifetime of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

²⁹Abram 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.

³⁰Sarai was unable to conceive; she did not have a child.

³¹Now Terah took his son Abram, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran and settled there.

³²The days of Terah were 205 years; and Terah died in Haran.