GE-11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one
speech.
GE-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.
GE-11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick,
and
burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime
had they
for mortar.
GE-11:4 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.
GE-11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower,
which
the children of men builded.
GE-11:6 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.
GE-11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their
language,
that they may not understand one another's speech.
GE-11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the
face
of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
GE-11:9 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.
GE-11:10 These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an
hundred
years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
GE-11:11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred
years,
and begat sons and daughters.
GE-11:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat
Salah:
GE-11:13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred
and
three years, and begat sons and daughters.
GE-11:14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
GE-11:15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and
three
years, and begat sons and daughters.
GE-11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
GE-11:17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and
thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters.
GE-11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
GE-11:19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine
years, and begat sons and daughters.
GE-11:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
GE-11:21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and
seven
years, and begat sons and daughters.
GE-11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
GE-11:23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years,
and
begat sons and daughters.
GE-11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
GE-11:25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and
nineteen
years, and begat sons and daughters.
GE-11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor,
and
Haran.
GE-11:27 Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat
Abram,
Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
GE-11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of
his
nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
GE-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.
GE-11:30 But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child.
GE-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 Ur of the Chaldees, to go into
the land
of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
GE-11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years:
and
Terah died in Haran.
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