Genesis 11:1WEB
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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Genesis 11:1WEB
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
Genesis 11:2WEB
As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
Genesis 11:3WEB
They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
Genesis 11:4WEB
They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
Genesis 11:5WEB
Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 11:6WEB
Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 11:7WEB
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Genesis 11:8WEB
So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 11:9WEB
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 11:10WEB
This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
Genesis 11:11WEB
Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:12WEB
Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.
Genesis 11:13WEB
Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:14WEB
Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.
Genesis 11:15WEB
Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:16WEB
Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
Genesis 11:17WEB
Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:18WEB
Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
Genesis 11:19WEB
Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:20WEB
Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
Genesis 11:21WEB
Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:22WEB
Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
Genesis 11:23WEB
Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:24WEB
Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
Genesis 11:25WEB
Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:26WEB
Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11:27WEB
Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
Genesis 11:28WEB
Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.
Genesis 11:29WEB
Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.
Genesis 11:30WEB
Sarai was barren. She had no child.
Genesis 11:31WEB
Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
Genesis 11:32WEB
The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.