Genesis Chapter 11

Genesis Chapter 11
1Then the whole earth was of one
language and one speech.
2 And as they went from the east, they
found a plain in the land of Shinar, and
there they abode.
3 And they said one to another, Come,
let us make brick, and burn it in the fire.
So they had brick for stone, and slime
had they instead of mortar. 4 Also they
said, Go to, let us build us a city and a
tower, whose top may reach unto the
heaven, that we may get us a name, lest
we be scattered upon the whole earth.
5 But the Lord came down, to see the
city and tower, which the sons of men
builded.
6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people
is one, and they all have one language,
and this they begin to do, neither can
they now be stopped from whatsoever
they have imagined to do.
7 Come on, let us go down, and there
confound their language, that every one
perceive not another’s speech.
8 So the Lord scattered them from thence
upon all the earth, and they left off to
build the city.
9 Therefore the name of it was called
Babel, because the Lord did there
confound the language of all the earth:
from thence then did the Lord scatter
them upon all the earth.
10 These are the generations of Shem:
Shem was an hundred years old, and
begat Arpachshad two years after the
flood.
11 And Shem lived, after he begat
Arpachshad, five hundred years, and
begat sons and daughters.
12 Also Arpachshad lived five and thirty
years, and begat Shelah. 13 And
Arpachshad lived, after he begat Shelah,
four hundred and three years, and begat
sons and daughters.
14 And Shelah lived thirty years, and
begat Eber.
15 So Shelah lived, after he begat Eber,
four hundred and three years, and begat
sons and daughters.
16 Likewise Eber lived four and thirty
years, and begat Peleg.
17 So 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 Also Reu lived two and thirty years,
and begat Serug.
21 So Reu lived, after he begat Serug,
two hundred and seven years, and begat
sons and daughters.
22 Moreover 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 So Nahor lived, after he begat Terah,
an hundred and nineteen years, and begat
sons and daughters.
26 So 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 Then Haran died before Terah his
father in the land of his nativity, in Ur of
the Chaldees.
29 So 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, and had no
child.
31 Then 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 departed
together from Ur of the Chaldees, to go
into the land of Canaan, and they came to
Haran, and dwelt there.
32 So the days of Terah were two
hundred and five years, and Terah died
in Haran.