Genesis 11 (TRV)

From Textus Receptus

• 1 Now 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 to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and they had tar for mortar.

• 4 And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top can reach the heaven; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

• 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.

• 6 And the LORD said, “Behold the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they are beginning to do; and now nothing that they have imagined to do will be withheld from them.

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

• 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

• 9 Therefore its name is called 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.

• 10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.

• 11 And Shem lived five hundred years after he begot Arphaxad, and begot sons and daughters.

• 12 And Arphaxad lived thirty five years, and begot Salah.

• 13 And Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years after he begot Salah, and begot sons and daughters.

• 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

• 15 And Salah lived four hundred and three years after he begot Eber, and begot sons and daughters.

• 16 And Eber lived thirty four years, and begot Peleg.

• 17 And Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he begot Peleg, , and begot sons and daughters.

• 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

• 19 And Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he begot Reu, and begot sons and daughters.

• 20 And Reu lived thirty two years, and begot Serug.

• 21 And Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he begot Serug, and begot sons and daughters.

• 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

• 23 And Serug lived two hundred years after he begot Nahor, and begot sons and daughters.

• 23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

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