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11:1  Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.
11:2  And as they migrated from the east, they came upon 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; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.’
11:5  The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.
11:6  And the Lord said, ‘Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
11:7  Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will 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 it 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 one hundred years old, he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;
11:11  and Shem lived after the birth of Arpachshad for five hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:12  When Arpachshad had lived for thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah;
11:13  and Arpachshad lived after the birth of Shelah for four hundred and three years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:14  When Shelah had lived for thirty years, he became the father of Eber;
11:15  and Shelah lived after the birth of Eber for four hundred and three years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:16  When Eber had lived for thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg;
11:17  and Eber lived after the birth of Peleg for four hundred and thirty years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:18  When Peleg had lived for thirty years, he became the father of Reu;
11:19  and Peleg lived after the birth of Reu for two hundred and nine years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:20  When Reu had lived for thirty-two years, he became the father of Serug;
11:21  and Reu lived after the birth of Serug for two hundred and seven years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:22  When Serug had lived for thirty years, he became the father of Nahor;
11:23  and Serug lived after the birth of Nahor for two hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:24  When Nahor had lived for twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah;
11:25  and Nahor lived after the birth of Terah for one hundred and nineteen years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:26  When Terah had lived for 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 Chaldeans.
11:29  Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
11:30  Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.
11:31  Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans 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.