Gen 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 lived there.
Gen 11:3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime (bitumen) they had for mortar.
Gen 11:4 And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the whole earth.
Gen 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Gen 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people are one, working together, and they have one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Gen 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Gen 11:8 So the LORD scattered them all over the face of all the earth: and they stopped building the city
Gen 11:9 Therefore its name is called Babel; because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth: and from there the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
Shem's Descendants
Gen 11:10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was 100 years old, and had a son named Arphaxad 2 years after the flood:
Gen 11:11 And Shem lived after he had Arphaxad 500 years, and fathered sons and daughters.
Gen 11:12 And Arphaxad was 35 years old and had a son named Salah:
Gen 11:13 And Arphaxad lived after he had Salah 403 years, and fathered sons and daughters.
Gen 11:14 And Salah lived 30 years, and had a son named Eber:
Gen 11:15 And Salah lived after he had Eber 403 years, and fathered sons and daughters.
Gen 11:16 And Eber lived 34 years, and had a son named Peleg:
Gen 11:17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg 430 years, and fathered sons and daughters.
Gen 11:18 And Peleg lived 30 years, and had a son named Reu:
Gen 11:19 And Peleg lived after he had Reu 209 years, and fathered sons and daughters.
Gen 11:20 And Reu lived 32 years, and had a son named Serug:
Gen 11:21 And Reu lived after he had Serug 207 years, and fathered sons and daughters.
Gen 11:22 And Serug lived 30 years, and had a son named Nahor:
Gen 11:23 And Serug lived after he had Nahor 200 years, and fathered sons and daughters.
Gen 11:24 And Nahor lived 29 years, and had a son named Terah:
Gen 11:25 And Nahor lived after he had Terah 119 years, and fathered sons and daughters.
Gen 11:26 And Terah lived 70 years, and had sons named Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Terah's Descendants
Gen 11:27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran had a son named Lot.
Gen 11:28 And Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldees, during his father's lifetime,
Gen 11:29 And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Gen 11:30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Gen 11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son (grandson) , and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and settled there.
Gen 11:32 And the days of Terah were 205 years: and Terah died in Haran.
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| Tower of Babel, 1563, by Pieter Bruegel |
