1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. KJV — Genesis 11:1
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. KJV — Genesis 11:2
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. KJV — Genesis 11:3
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. KJV — Genesis 11:4
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. KJV — Genesis 11:5
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. KJV — Genesis 11:6
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. KJV — Genesis 11:7
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. KJV — Genesis 11:8
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. KJV — Genesis 11:9
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: KJV — Genesis 11:10
11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. KJV — Genesis 11:11
12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: KJV — Genesis 11:12
13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. KJV — Genesis 11:13
14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: KJV — Genesis 11:14
15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. KJV — Genesis 11:15
16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: KJV — Genesis 11:16
17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. KJV — Genesis 11:17
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: KJV — Genesis 11:18
19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. KJV — Genesis 11:19
20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: KJV — Genesis 11:20
21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. KJV — Genesis 11:21
22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: KJV — Genesis 11:22
23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. KJV — Genesis 11:23
24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: KJV — Genesis 11:24
25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. KJV — Genesis 11:25
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. KJV — Genesis 11:26
27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. KJV — Genesis 11:27
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. KJV — Genesis 11:28
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. KJV — Genesis 11:29
30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child. KJV — Genesis 11:30
31 And Terah took 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 forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. KJV — Genesis 11:31
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. KJV — Genesis 11:32