Genesis 11

Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech. Begin Abide·

And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. Begin Abide·

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar. Begin Abide·

“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.” Begin Abide·

Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building. Begin Abide·

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them. Begin Abide·

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” Begin Abide·

So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city. Begin Abide·

That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth. Begin Abide·

This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad. Begin Abide·

And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters. Begin Abide·

When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah. Begin Abide·

And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters. Begin Abide·

When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber. Begin Abide·

And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters. Begin Abide·

When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg. Begin Abide·

And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters. Begin Abide·

When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu. Begin Abide·

And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters. Begin Abide·

When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug. Begin Abide·

And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters. Begin Abide·

When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor. Begin Abide·

And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters. Begin Abide·

When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah. Begin Abide·

And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters. Begin Abide·

When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Begin Abide·

This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. Begin Abide·

During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. Begin Abide·

And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah. Begin Abide·

But Sarai was barren; she had no children. Begin Abide·

And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there. Begin Abide·

Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran. Begin Abide·