Chapter 11

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

And it came to pass, as they journeyed² from the east, that they found⁴ a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt⁴ there.

And they said⁴ one to another, Go to,³ let us make⁴ brick, and burn⁴ them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had¹ they for morter.

And they said,⁴ Go to,³ let us build⁴ us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make⁴ us a name, lest we be scattered⁴ abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

And the LORD came down⁴ to see² the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.¹

And the LORD said,⁴ Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin⁵³ to do:² and now nothing ³⁶⁰⁵ will be restrained¹¹ from them, which they have imagined⁴ to do.²

Go to,³ let us go down,⁴ and there confound⁴ their language, that they may not understand⁴ one another's speech.

So the LORD scattered⁵⁵ them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off⁴ to build² the city.

Therefore is the name of it called¹ Babel; because the LORD did there confound¹ the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter⁵² them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat⁵⁵ Arphaxad two years after the flood:

And Shem lived⁴ after he begat⁵³ Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat⁵⁵ sons and daughters.

And Arphaxad lived¹ five and thirty years, and begat⁵⁵ Salah:

And Arphaxad lived⁴ after he begat⁵³ Salah four hundred ⁸¹⁴¹ and three years, and begat⁵⁵ sons and daughters.

And Salah lived¹ thirty years, and begat⁵⁵ Eber:

And Salah lived⁴ after he begat⁵³ Eber four hundred ⁸¹⁴¹ and three years, and begat⁵⁵ sons and daughters.

And Eber lived⁴ four and thirty years, and begat⁵⁵ Peleg:

And Eber lived⁴ after he begat⁵³ Peleg four hundred ⁸¹⁴¹ and thirty years, and begat⁵⁵ sons and daughters.

And Peleg lived⁴ thirty years, and begat⁵⁵ Reu:

And Peleg lived⁴ after he begat⁵³ Reu two hundred ⁸¹⁴¹ and nine years, and begat⁵⁵ sons and daughters.

And Reu lived⁴ two and thirty years, and begat⁵⁵ Serug:

And Reu lived⁴ after he begat⁵³ Serug two hundred ⁸¹⁴¹ and seven years, and begat⁵⁵ sons and daughters.

And Serug lived⁴ thirty years, and begat⁵⁵ Nahor:

And Serug lived⁴ after he begat⁵³ Nahor two hundred years, and begat⁵⁵ sons and daughters.

And Nahor lived⁴ nine and twenty years, and begat⁵⁵ Terah:

And Nahor lived⁴ after he begat⁵³ Terah an hundred ⁸¹⁴¹ and nineteen ⁸⁶⁷² years, and begat⁵⁵ sons and daughters.

And Terah lived⁴ seventy years, and begat⁵⁵ Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat⁵² Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat⁵² Lot.

And Haran died⁴ before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

And Abram and Nahor took⁴ 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.

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

And Terah took⁴ 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 forth⁴ with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go² into the land of Canaan; and they came⁴ unto Haran, and dwelt⁴ there.

And the days of Terah were two hundred ⁸¹⁴¹ and five years: and Terah died⁴ in Haran.