Chapter 11 - The city and the tower

[1] And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

[2] 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.

[3] And they said one to another, 

Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. 

And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

[4] 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.

[5] And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

[6] 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.

[7] Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

[8] So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

[9] 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.

[10] These are the generations (of Shem): 

Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

[11] And Shem lived (after he begat Arphaxad) five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

[12] And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

[13] And Arphaxad lived (after he begat Salah) four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

[14] And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

[15] And Salah lived (after he begat Eber) four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

[16] And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

[17] And Eber lived (after he begat Peleg) four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

[18] And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

[19] And Peleg lived (after he begat Reu) two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

[20] And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

[21] And Reu lived (after he begat Serug) two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

[22] And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

[23] And Serug lived (after he begat Nahor) two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

[24] And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

[25] And Nahor lived (after he begat Terah) an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

[26] And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

[27] Now these are the generations (of Terah): 

Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

[28] And Haran died before his father (Terah) in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

[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.

[30] But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

[31] And Terah took Abram (his son) and Lot (the son of Haran) his son's son1, 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.

[32] And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

FOOTNOTE

1. Note: his grandson

Chapter 12