GENESIS
Chapter 11

One language

11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
11:2 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.

Babel

11:3 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 mortar.
11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] to heaven ; and let us make us a name, unless we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Confusion of languages

11:5 And the Yehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
11:6 And the Yehovah 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.
11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
11:8 So the Yehovah scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth and they left off to build the city.
11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Yehovah did there confound the language of all the earth and from there did the Yehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Shem's offspring

11:10 These [are] the generations of Shem Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood
11:11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah
11:13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber
11:15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg
11:17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu
11:19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug
11:21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor
11:23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah
11:25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
11:27 Now these [are] the generations of Terah Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran ; and Haran begat Lot.
11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in land of the Chaldees.
11:29 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.
11:30 But Sarai was barren ; she [had] no child.
11:31 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 land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.
11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years and Terah died in Haran.

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