“1 And the whole earth was of
one language, 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;
and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make
brick, and burn them throughly. 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; and let us make us a name,
lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”
“5 And the LORD came down to see 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
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may
not understand one another’s speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad
from thence 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 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: 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 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: 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.”
“27 Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor,
and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. 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; 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 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, to go into the land of
Canaan; 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.” (Ge
11:1-32 AV)
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