Genesis 11

The whole earth had one language and the same words. As they journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, so that we will not be scattered over the surface of the whole earth.” The LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the children of men had built. The LORD said, “Look, they are one people, and they all have one language. This is what they have begun to do, and now nothing they plan to do will be beyond them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s language.” So the LORD scattered them from there over the surface of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth. From there the LORD scattered them over the surface of the whole earth. These are the generations of Shem. Shem was 100 years old when he fathered Arphaxad, two years after the flood. After fathering Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and fathered sons and daughters. When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah. After fathering Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and fathered sons and daughters. When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber. After fathering Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and fathered sons and daughters. When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg. After fathering Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and fathered sons and daughters. When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu. After fathering Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and fathered sons and daughters. When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug. After fathering Serug, Reu lived 207 years and fathered sons and daughters. When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor. After fathering Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and fathered sons and daughters. When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah. After fathering Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and fathered sons and daughters. Terah was 70 years old, and he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. These are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot. Haran died while his father Terah was still alive, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. Sarai was barren; she had no child. Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram. They set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. When they reached Haran, they settled there. Terah lived 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.

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