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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