Chapter 11
1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech .
2 As they travelled east , they found a plain in the land of Shinar , and they lived there .
3 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 .
4 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 ."
5 The LORD came down to see the city and the tower , which the children of men built .
6 The LORD 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 .
7 Come , let ’s go down , and there confuse their language , that they may not understand one another ’s speech ."
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city .
9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there , the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
10 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 .
11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters .
12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah .
13 Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah , and became the father of more sons and daughters .
14 Shelah lived thirty years , and became the father of Eber .
15 Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber , and became the father of more sons and daughters .
16 Eber lived thirty-four years , and became the father of Peleg .
17 Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Peleg , and became the father of more sons and daughters .
18 Peleg lived thirty years , and became the father of Reu .
19 Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu , and became the father of more sons and daughters .
20 Reu lived thirty-two years , and became the father of Serug .
21 Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug , and became the father of more sons and daughters .
22 Serug lived thirty years , and became the father of Nahor .
23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor , and became the father of more sons and daughters .
24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years , and became the father of Terah .
25 Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah , and became the father of more sons and daughters .
26 Terah lived seventy years , and became the father of Abram, Nahor , and Haran .
27 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 .
28 Haran died in the land of his birth , in Ur of the Chaldees , while his father Terah was still alive.
29 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 .
30 Sarai was barren . She had no child .
31 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 .
32 The days of Terah were two hundred and five years . Terah died in Haran .