Genesis - Chapter 11

1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 2It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they lived there. 3They said one to another, \"Come, let's make brick, and burn them thoroughly.\" They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. 4They said, \"Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.\" 5Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. 6Yahweh said, \"Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. 7Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.\" 8So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city. 9Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth. 10This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood. 11Shem lived after he became the father of Arpachshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 12Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah. 13Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 14Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber: 15and Shelah lived after he became the father of Eber four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 16Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg. 17Eber lived after he became the father of Peleg four hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 18Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu. 19Peleg lived after he became the father of Reu two hundred nine years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 20Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug. 21Reu lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 22Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor. 23Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 24Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah. 25Nahor lived after he became the father of Terah one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 26Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. 28Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah. 30Sarai was barren. She had no child. 31Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran, and lived there. 32The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.