Genesis, Chapter 11:
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Verses from Genesis, Chapter 11 of the book of Genesis of the Bible.
The Tower of Babel
- 1. The whole earth had one language and one language.
- 2. And when the men moved toward the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and there they dwelt.
- 3. They said to one another: Come, let us make bricks and burn them well. The bricks served as stone and the bitumen as mortar.
- 4. They said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top may reach to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
- 5. Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building;
- 6. and the Lord said: Behold, the people are one, and they all have the same language. This is just the beginning; now there will be no restrictions on everything they intend to do.
- 7. Look, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that one does not understand the other's language.
- 8. So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.
- 9. Therefore his name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there he scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
From Shem to Abram
- 10. These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old and fathered Arphaxad two years after the flood.
- 11. And after he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years and begat sons and daughters.
- 12. Arphaxad lived thirty-five years and fathered Shelah.
- 13. After he fathered Shelah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years and fathered sons and daughters.
- 14. Shelah lived thirty years and fathered Eber.
- 15. After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived four hundred and three years and fathered sons and daughters.
- 16. Eber lived thirty-four years and fathered Peleg.
- 17. After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years and fathered sons and daughters.
- 18. Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Rehu.
- 19. After he fathered Rehu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years and fathered sons and daughters.
- 20. Rehu lived thirty-two years and fathered Serug.
- 21. After he fathered Serug, Rehu lived two hundred and seven years and fathered sons and daughters.
- 22. Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nahor.
- 23. After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.
- 24. Nahor lived twenty-nine years and fathered Terah.
- 25. After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years and fathered sons and daughters.
- 26. Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran.
- 27. These are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
- 28. And Haran died before Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
- 29. Abram and Nahor took wives for himself; Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.
- 30. Sarai was barren and had no children.
- 31. Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and went with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.
