And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
GENESIS 11:1
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.
GENESIS 11:2
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 morter.
GENESIS 11:3
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.
GENESIS 11:4
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
GENESIS 11:5
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.
GENESIS 11:6
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
GENESIS 11:7
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth and they left off to build the city.
GENESIS 11:8
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.
GENESIS 11:9
These are the generations of Shem Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood
GENESIS 11:10
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:11
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah
GENESIS 11:12
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:13
And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber
GENESIS 11:14
And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:15
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg
GENESIS 11:16
And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:17
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu
GENESIS 11:18
And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:19
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug
GENESIS 11:20
And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:21
And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor
GENESIS 11:22
And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:23
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah
GENESIS 11:24
And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:25
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
GENESIS 11:26
Now these are the generations of Terah Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
GENESIS 11:27
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
GENESIS 11:28
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.
GENESIS 11:29
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
GENESIS 11:30
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.
GENESIS 11:31
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years and Terah died in Haran.
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