Genesis 11
1. And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2. And it came to pass, as they journeyed * from the east, that they found * a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt * there.
3. And they said * one to another, Go to * , let us make * brick, and burn * them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had * they for morter.
4. And they said * , Go to * , let us build * us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make * us a name, lest we be scattered abroad * upon the face of the whole earth.
5. And the LORD came down * to see * the city and the tower, which the children of men builded * .
6. And the LORD said * , Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin * to do * : and now nothing will be restrained * from them, which they have imagined * to do * .
7. Go to * , let us go down * , and there confound * their language, that they may not understand * one another's speech.
8. So the LORD scattered them abroad * from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off * to build * the city.
9. Therefore is the name of it called * Babel; because the LORD did there confound * the language of all the earth: and from thence did * the LORD scatter them abroad * upon the face of all the earth.
10. These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat * Arphaxad two years after the flood:
11. And Shem lived * after he begat * Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat * sons and daughters.
12. And Arphaxad lived * five and thirty years, and begat * Salah:
13. And Arphaxad lived * after he begat * Salah four hundred and three years, and begat * sons and daughters.
14. And Salah lived * thirty years, and begat * Eber:
15. And Salah lived * after he begat * Eber four hundred and three years, and begat * sons and daughters.
16. And Eber lived * four and thirty years, and begat * Peleg:
17. And Eber lived * after he begat * Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat * sons and daughters.
18. And Peleg lived * thirty years, and begat * Reu:
19. And Peleg lived * after he begat * Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat * sons and daughters.
20. And Reu lived * two and thirty years, and begat * Serug:
21. And Reu lived * after he begat * Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat * sons and daughters.
22. And Serug lived * thirty years, and begat * Nahor:
23. And Serug lived * after he begat * Nahor two hundred years,and begat * sons and daughters.
24. And Nahor lived * nine and twenty years, and begat * Terah:
25. And Nahor lived * after he begat * Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat * sons and daughters.
26. And Terah lived * seventy years, and begat * Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27. Now these are the generations of Terah:Terah begat * Abram, Nahor,and Haran; and Haran begat * Lot.
28. And Haran died * before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29. And Abram and Nahor took * them 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 the father of Iscah.
30. But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31. And Terah took * Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth * with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go * into the land of Canaan; and they came * unto Haran, and dwelt * there.
32. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died * in Haran.
