Genesis 11 (TRV)

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• 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.

• 24 And Nahor lived twenty nine years, and begot Terah.

• 25 And Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he begot Terah, and begot sons and daughters.

• 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

• 27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran begot Lot.

• 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

• 29 Then Abram and Nahor took wives to themselves: 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 his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.

• 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.