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11:1  And the whole earth was of one language, and of 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  And they said one to another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
11:4  And they said, “Come, 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.”
11:5  And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.
11:6  And the Lord said, “Behold, the people are one and they have all one language, and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be withheld from them which they have imagined to do.
11:7  Come, let Us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
11:8  So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off building the city.
11:9  Therefore is the name of it called Babel [that is, Confusion], 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.
11:10  These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood;
11:11  and Shem lived after he begot Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:12  And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years and begot Salah;
11:13  and Arphaxad lived after he begot Salah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:14  And Salah lived thirty years and begot Eber;
11:15  and Salah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:16  And Eber lived four and thirty years and begot Peleg;
11:17  and Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:18  And Peleg lived thirty years and begot Reu;
11:19  and Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:20  And Reu lived two and thirty years and begot Serug;
11:21  and Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:22  And Serug lived thirty years and begot Nahor;
11:23  and Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:24  And Nahor lived nine and twenty years and begot Terah;
11:25  and Nahor lived after he begot Terah one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:26  And Terah lived seventy years and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
11:27  Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.
11:28  And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
11:29  And Abram and Nahor took for themselves 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 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 Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran and dwelt there.
11:32  And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.