Verse 1
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 5
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builder.
Verse 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.
Verse 7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Verse 8
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Verse 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.
Verse 10
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood.
Verse 11
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Verse 12
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah.
Verse 13
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Verse 14
And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber.
Verse 15
And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Verse 16
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg.
Verse 17
And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
Verse 18
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu.
Verse 19
And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
Verse 20
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug.
Verse 21
And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
Verse 22
And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor.
Verse 23
And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Verse 24
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah.
Verse 25
And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
Verse 26
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Verse 27
Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
Verse 28
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
Verse 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.
Verse 30
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Verse 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.
Verse 32
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.