Genesis - Chapter 11 | New King James Version

  • 1. Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.
  • 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.
  • 3. Then they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
  • 4. And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
  • 5. But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
  • 6. And the Lord said, "Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.
  • 7. Come, let Us 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 over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
  • 9. Therefore its name is 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.
  • 10. This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
  • 11. After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
  • 12. Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah.
  • 13. After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
  • 14. Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
  • 15. After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
  • 16. Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.
  • 17. After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
  • 18. Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
  • 19. After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
  • 20. Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.
  • 21. After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
  • 22. Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
  • 23. After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
  • 24. Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.
  • 25. After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
  • 26. Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
  • 27. This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot.
  • 28. And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
  • 29. Then Abram and Nahor took 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.
  • 30. But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
  • 31. And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.
  • 32. So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
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