Gen11:1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.
Gen11:2 And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Gen11:3 And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
Gen11:4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."
Gen11:5 The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.
Gen11:6 And the LORD said, "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
Gen11:7 Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
Gen11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
Gen11:9 Therefore it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
Gen11:10 These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old, he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;
Gen11:11 and Shem lived after the birth of Arpachshad five hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
Gen11:12 When Arpachshad had lived thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah;
Gen11:13 and Arpachshad lived after the birth of Shelah four hundred three years, and had other sons and daughters.
Gen11:14 When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber;
Gen11:15 and Shelah lived after the birth of Eber four hundred three years, and had other sons and daughters.
Gen11:16 When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg;
Gen11:17 and Eber lived after the birth of Peleg four hundred thirty years, and had other sons and daughters.
Gen11:18 When Peleg had lived thirty years, he became the father of Reu;
Gen11:19 and Peleg lived after the birth of Reu two hundred nine years, and had other sons and daughters.
Gen11:20 When Reu had lived thirty-two years, he became the father of Serug;
Gen11:21 and Reu lived after the birth of Serug two hundred seven years, and had other sons and daughters.
Gen11:22 When Serug had lived thirty years, he became the father of Nahor;
Gen11:23 and Serug lived after the birth of Nahor two hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
Gen11:24 When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah;
Gen11:25 and Nahor lived after the birth of Terah one hundred nineteen years, and had other sons and daughters.
Gen11:26 When Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Gen11:27 Now these are the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.
Gen11:28 Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
Gen11:29 Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Gen11:30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Gen11:31 Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Gen11:32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years; and Terah died in Haran.