Genesis, Chapter 11
Chapter 11
The tower of Babel.
The generations of Shem to Abram.
1 And the whole earth was of one language[1], and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar[2]; and they dwelt there.
3 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 morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven[3]; and let us make us a name[4], lest we be scattered[5] abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the Lord came down to see[6] the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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[7].
7 Go to, let us[8] go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech[9].
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence[10] upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language[11] of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
10 These are the generations of Shem[12]: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah[13]:
13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg[14]:
17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran[15].
27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot[16].
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai[17]; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah[18], the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child[19].
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[20], to go into the land of Canaan[21]; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Footnotes
- ↑ Act 2:6
- ↑ Dan 1:2
- ↑ Deu 1:28
- ↑ Joh 5:44
- ↑ Luk 1:51
- ↑ Gen 18:21, Psa 33:13, Psa 53:2
- ↑ Psa 2:1, Psa 2:4
- ↑ Gen 1:26
- ↑ 1 Cor 14:23, 1 Cor 14:11, 1 Cor 14:2, Act 2:4-11, Jer 5:15, Deu 28:49, Gen 42:23
- ↑ Luk 1:51, Pro 19:29, Psa 92:9, Gen 10:25-32
- ↑ 1 Cor 14:23
- ↑ 1 Chr 1:17-27
- ↑ Luk 3:35
- ↑ 1 Chr 1:19
- ↑ Gen 12:1, Jos 24:2, 1 Chr 1:26
- ↑ 2 Pet 2:7, Gen 19:29, Gen 19:1, Gen 14:12, Gen 13:10, Gen 12:4
- ↑ Gen 17:15
- ↑ Gen 22:20
- ↑ Gen 16:1
- ↑ Neh 9:7, Act 7:4, Heb 11:8
- ↑ Gen 10:19
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