| 11 | Genesis | ||
| 1 | ONCE UPON A TIME all the world spoke a single language and used the same words. | The Tower of Babel. Gn.11.1-9 | |
| 2 | As men journeyed in the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. | ||
| 3 | They said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks and bake them hard'; they used bricks for stone and bitumen for mortar. | ||
| 4 | 'Come,' they said, 'let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves ; or we shall be dispersed all over the earth.' | ||
| 5 | Then the LORD came down to see the city and tower which mortal men had built, | ||
| 6 | and he said, 'Here they are, one people with a single language, and now they have started to do this; henceforward nothing they have a mind to do will be beyond their reach. | ||
| 7 | Come, let us go down there and confuse their speech, so that they will not understand what they say to one another.' | ||
| 8 | So the LORD dispersed them from there all over the earth, and they left off building the city. | ||
| 9 | That is why it is called Babel , because the LORD there made a babble Of the language of all the world; from that place the LORD scattered men all Over the face of the earth. | ||
| 10 | This is the table of the descendants of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the ?ood. | Generations - Shem. Gn.11.10-26 - 1Chr.1.24-27 | |
| 11 | After the birth of Arphaxad he lived five hundred years, and had other sons and daughters. | ||
| 12 | Arphaxad was thirty-five years old when he begot Shelah. | ||
| 13 | After the birth of Shelah he lived four hundred and three years, and had other sons and daughters. | ||
| 14 | Shelah was thirty years old when he begot Eber. | ||
| 15 | After the birth of Eber he lived four hundred and three years, and had other sons and daughters. | ||
| 16 | Eber was thirty-four years old when he begot Peleg. | ||
| 17 | After the birth of Peleg he lived four hundred and thirty years, and had other sons and daughters. | ||
| 18 | Peleg was thirty years old when he begot Reu. | ||
| 19 | After the birth of Reu he lived two hundred and nine years, and had other sons and daughters. | ||
| 20 | Reu was thirty-two years old when he begot Serug. | ||
| 21 | After the birth of Serug he lived two hundred and seven years, and had other sons and daughters. | ||
| 22 | Serug was thirty years old when he begot Nahor. | ||
| 23 | After the birth of Nahor he lived two hundred years, and had other sons and daughters. | ||
| 24 | Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he begot Terah. | ||
| 25 | After the birth of Terah he lived a hundred and nineteen years, and had other sons and daughters. | ||
| 26 | Terah was seventy years old when he begot Abram, Nahor and Haran. | ||
| 27 | This is the table of the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. Haran was the father of Lot. | Generation - Terah. Gn.11.27-32 | |
| 28 | Haran died in the presence of his father in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees. | ||
| 29 | Abram and Nahor married wives; Abram's wife was called Sarai, and Nahor's Milcah. She was Haran's daughter; and he was also the father of Milcah and of Iscah. | ||
| 30 | Sarai was barren; she had no child. | ||
| 31 | Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai Abram's wife, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldees for the land of Canaan. But when they reached Harran, they settled there. | ||
| 32 | Terah was two hundred and five years old when he died in Harran. | ||
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