Genesis 11

1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.WBS — 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.WBS — Genesis 11:2

3 And they said one to another, come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.WBS — Genesis 11:3

4 And they said, come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we should be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.WBS — Genesis 11:4

5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men were building.WBS — 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.WBS — Genesis 11:6

7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.WBS — 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.WBS — Genesis 11:8

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD there confounded the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.WBS — Genesis 11:9

10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:WBS — Genesis 11:10

11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.WBS — Genesis 11:11

12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah.WBS — Genesis 11:12

13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.WBS — Genesis 11:13

14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:WBS — Genesis 11:14

15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.WBS — Genesis 11:15

16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:WBS — Genesis 11:16

17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.WBS — Genesis 11:17

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:WBS — Genesis 11:18

19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.WBS — Genesis 11:19

20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug.WBS — Genesis 11:20

21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.WBS — Genesis 11:21

22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:WBS — Genesis 11:22

23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.WBS — Genesis 11:23

24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah.WBS — Genesis 11:24

25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.WBS — Genesis 11:25

26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.WBS — Genesis 11:26

27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and Haran begat Lot.WBS — Genesis 11:27

28 And Haran died before his father Terah, in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.WBS — 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.WBS — Genesis 11:29

30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.WBS — 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 to Haran, and dwelt there.WBS — Genesis 11:31

32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.WBS — Genesis 11:32