Genesis 11

The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel

1 The whole earths had a common language and a common vocabulary.t2 When the peoplet moved eastward,t they found a plain in Shinarts and settled there.3 Then they said to one another,t “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”t (They had brick instead of stone and tart instead of mortar.)t

4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavenst so thatt we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwiset we will be scattereds across the face of the entire earth.”
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the peoplet had startedt building.6 And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common languaget they have begun to do this, thent nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.t

7 Come, let’s go down and confuset their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”t
8 So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped buildingt the city.

9 That is why its name was calledt Babels – because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

The Genealogy of Shem

10 This is the account of Shem.
Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

11 And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had othert sons and daughters.
12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.

13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had othert sons and daughters.s
14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.

15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had othert sons and daughters.
16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.

17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.

19 And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.

21 And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.

23 And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

26 When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

The Record of Terah

27 This is the account of Terah.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans,s while his father Terah was still alive.t29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai,s and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah;s she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

30 But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

32 The lifetimet of Terah was 205 years, and het died in Haran.

GENESIS 11

The Tower of Babel

1 At first everyone spoke the same language, 2 but after some of them moved from the eastt and settled in Babylonia, t

3-4 they said:
Let's build a city with a tower that reaches to the sky! We'll use hard bricks and tar instead of stone and mortar. We'll become famous, and we won't be scattered all over the world.
5 But when the [Lord] came down to look at the city and the tower,

6 he said:
These people are working together because they all speak the same language. This is just the beginning. Soon they will be able to do anything they want.

7 Let's go down and confuse them! We'll make them speak different languages, and they won't be able to understand each other.

8-9 So the people had to stop building the city, because the [Lord] confused their language and scattered them all over the earth. That's how the city of Babelt got its name.

The Descendants //of Shem

10-11 Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100, he had a son named Arpachshad. He had more children and died at the age of 600. This is a list of his descendants:
12 When Arpachshad was 35, he had a son named Shelah.

13 Arpachshad had more children and died at the age of 438.
14 When Shelah was 30, he had a son named Eber.

15 Shelah had more children and died at the age of 433.
16 When Eber was 34, he had a son named Peleg.

17 Eber had more children and died at the age of 464.
18 When Peleg was 30, he had a son named Reu.

19 Peleg had more children and died at the age of 239.
20 When Reu was 32 he had a son named Serug.

21 Reu had more children and died at the age of 239.
22 When Serug was 30, he had a son named Nahor.

23 Serug had more children and died at the age of 230.
24 When Nahor was 29, he had a son named Terah.

25 Nahor had more children and died at the age of 148.

The Descendants //of Terah

26-28 After Terah was 70 years old, he had three sons: Abram, Nahor, and Haran, who became the father of Lot. Terah's sons were born in the city of Ur in Chaldea, t and Haran died there before the death of his father. The following is the story of Terah's descendants.

29-30 Abram married Sarai, but she was not able to have children. And Nahor married Milcah, who was the daughter of Haran and the sister of Iscah.
31 Terah decided to move from Ur to the land of Canaan. He took along Abram and Sarai and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran. But when they came to the city of Haran, t they settled there instead. 32 Terah lived to be 205 years old and died in Haran.