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11:1  Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.
11:2  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.
11:3  Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
11:4  And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
11:5  But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
11:6  And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.
11:7  Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
11:8  So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
11:9  Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
11:10  This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
11:11  After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:12  Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah.
11:13  After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:14  Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
11:15  After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:16  Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.
11:17  After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:18  Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
11:19  After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:20  Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.
11:21  After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:22  Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
11:23  After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:24  Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.
11:25  After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:26  Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
11:27  This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot.
11:28  And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
11:29  Then Abram and Nahor took 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.
11:30  But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
11:31  And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.
11:32  So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.