Genesis 11

¹Now the whole earth had one language and the same words .

²And as people migrated from the east , they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

³And they said to one another , Come , let us make bricks , and burn them thoroughly . And they had brick for stone , and bitumen for mortar .

⁴Then they said , Come , let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens , and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth .

⁵And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower , which the children of man had built .

⁶And the Lord said , Behold, they are one people , and they have all one language , and this is only the beginning of what they will do . And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

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

⁸So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth , and they left off building the city .

⁹Therefore its name was called Babel , because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth . And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth .

¹⁰These are the generations of Shem . When Shem was 100 years old , he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood .

¹¹And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters .

¹²When Arpachshad had lived 35 years , he fathered Shelah .

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

¹⁴When Shelah had lived 30 years , he fathered Eber .

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

¹⁶When Eber had lived 34 years , he fathered Peleg .

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

¹⁸When Peleg had lived 30 years , he fathered Reu .

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

²⁰When Reu had lived 32 years , he fathered Serug .

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

²²When Serug had lived 30 years , he fathered Nahor .

²³And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters .

²⁴When Nahor had lived 29 years , he fathered Terah .

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

²⁶When Terah had lived 70 years , he fathered Abram , Nahor , and Haran .

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

²⁸Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred , in Ur of the Chaldeans .

²⁹And Abram and Nahor took wives . The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai , and the name of Nahor’s wife , Milcah , the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah .

³⁰Now Sarai was barren ; she had no child .

³¹Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran , his grandson , and Sarai his daughter-in-law , his son Abram’s wife , and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan , but when they came to Haran , they settled there.

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