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11:1  Now the whole earth had one language and few words.
11:2  And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
11:3  And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
11:4  Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, 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 sons of men had built.
11:6  And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for 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 left off building the city.
11:9  Therefore its name was 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  These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was a hundred years old, he became the father of Arpach′shad two years after the flood;
11:11  and Shem lived after the birth of Arpach′shad five hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:12  When Arpach′shad had lived thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah;
11:13  and Arpach′shad lived after the birth of Shelah four hundred and three years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:14  When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber;
11:15  and Shelah lived after the birth of Eber four hundred and three years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:16  When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg;
11:17  and Eber lived after the birth of Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:18  When Peleg had lived thirty years, he became the father of Re′u;
11:19  and Peleg lived after the birth of Re′u two hundred and nine years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:20  When Re′u had lived thirty-two years, he became the father of Serug;
11:21  and Re′u lived after the birth of Serug two hundred and seven years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:22  When Serug had lived thirty years, he became the father of Nahor;
11:23  and Serug lived after the birth of Nahor two hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:24  When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah;
11:25  and Nahor lived after the birth of Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:26  When Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
11:27  Now these are the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.
11:28  Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chalde′ans.
11:29  And Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of Abram’s wife was Sar′ai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
11:30  Now Sar′ai was barren; she had no child.
11:31  Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sar′ai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chalde′ans to go into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
11:32  The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.