01_GEN_11_01 And the whole earth was of one language, And of one speech.
01_GEN_11_02 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.
01_GEN_11_03 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.
01_GEN_11_04 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.
01_GEN_11_05 And the LORD came down to see the city And the tower, which the children of men builded.
01_GEN_11_06 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.
01_GEN_11_07 go to, let us go down, And there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
01_GEN_11_08 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: And they left off to build the city.
01_GEN_11_09 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.
01_GEN_11_10 These [ are] the generations of Shem: Shem [ was] an hundred years old, And begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
01_GEN_11_11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, And begat sons And daughters.
01_GEN_11_12 And Arphaxad lived five And thirty years, And begat Salah:
01_GEN_11_13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred And three years, And begat sons And daughters.
01_GEN_11_14 And Salah lived thirty years, And begat Eber:
01_GEN_11_15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred And three years, And begat sons And daughters.
01_GEN_11_16 And Eber lived four And thirty years, And begat Peleg:
01_GEN_11_17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred And thirty years, And begat sons And daughters.
01_GEN_11_18 And Peleg lived thirty years, And begat Reu:
01_GEN_11_19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred And nine years, And begat sons And daughters.
01_GEN_11_20 And Reu lived two And thirty years, And begat Serug:
01_GEN_11_21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred And seven years, And begat sons And daughters.
01_GEN_11_22 And Serug lived thirty years, And begat Nahor:
01_GEN_11_23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, And begat sons And daughters.
01_GEN_11_24 And Nahor lived nine And twenty years, And begat Terah:
01_GEN_11_25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred And nineteen years, And begat sons And daughters.
01_GEN_11_26 And Terah lived seventy years, And begat Abram, Nahor, And Haran.
01_GEN_11_27 now These [ are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, And Haran; And Haran begat lot.
01_GEN_11_28 And Haran died before his Father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
01_GEN_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.
01_GEN_11_30 but Sarai was barren; she [ had] no child.
01_GEN_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.
01_GEN_11_32 And the days of Terah were two hundred And five years: And Terah died in Haran.