Chapter 11 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
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.
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them
thoroughly.
And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
And they said, Go to, let us build 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.
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.
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.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not
understand one another's speech.
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth,
and they left off to build the city.
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.
These are the generations of Shem.
Shem was a hundred years old and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood.
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years and begat sons and
daughters.
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years and begat Selah.
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Selah four hundred and three years and begat
sons and daughters.
And Selah lived thirty years and begat Eber.
And Selah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years and begat sons and
daughters.
And Eber lived four and thirty years and begat Peleg.
And Eber lived after he begat Pelig four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons
and daughters.
And Pelig lived thirty years, and begat Reu.
And Pelig lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and
daughters.
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Sirug.
And Reu lived after he begat Sirug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons
and daughters.
And Sirug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor.
And Sirach lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters.
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Turah.
And Nahor lived after he begat Turah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons
and daughters.
And Turah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Now these are the generations of Turah.
Turah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
And Haran begat Lot.
And Haran died before his father Turah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the
Chaldees.
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.
But Sarai was barren, she had no child.
And Turah 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.
And the days of Turah were two hundred and five years, and Turah died in Haran.