11:1 The whole earth had the same language and vocabulary.
11:2 As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.
11:3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.” (They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.)
11:4 And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered throughout the earth.”
11:5 Then the Lord came down to look over the city and the tower that the humans were building.
11:6 The Lord said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
11:7 Come, let’s go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
11:8 So from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth, and they stopped building the city.
11:9 Therefore it is called Babylon, for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth.
11:10 These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.
11:11 After he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
11:12 Arpachshad lived 35 years and fathered Shelah.
11:13 After he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived 403 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
11:25 After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
11:26 Terah lived 70 years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
11:27 These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.
11:28 Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans, during his father Terah’s lifetime.
11:29 Abram and Nahor took wives: Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
11:30 Sarai was unable to conceive; she did not have a child.
11:31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
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