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Genesis 11
The Division of the Earth
111The whole earth had one language and a single vocabulary. 2As people traveled in the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they settled there. 3They said to one another, “Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used mud brick instead of stone for building material, and they used tar for mortar. 4They said, “Come, let's build a city for ourselves and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make a name for ourselves, so that we will not be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
5The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people were building. 6The Lord said, “If this is the first thing they are doing as one people, who all have one language, then nothing that they intend to do will be too difficult for them. 7Come, let's go down there and confuse their language, so that they cannot understand one another's speech.”
8So the Lord scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city. 9It was named Babel,[] because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
The Ancestors of Abraham
10This is the account about the development of the family of Shem.
Shem was 100 years old and became the father of Arphaxad two years after the flood. 11Shem lived 500 years after he became the father of Arphaxad, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
12Arphaxad lived 35 years and became the father of Shelah. 13Arphaxad lived 403 years after he became the father of Shelah, and he became the father of sons and daughters.[]
14Shelah lived 30 years and became the father of Eber. 15Shelah lived 403 years after he became the father of Eber, and he became the father of sons and daughters. 16Eber lived 34 years and became the father of Peleg. 17Eber lived 430 years after he became the father of Peleg, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
18Peleg lived 30 years and became the father of Reu. 19Peleg lived 209 years after he became the father of Reu, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
20Reu lived 32 years and became the father of Serug. 21Reu lived 207 years after he became the father of Serug, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
22Serug lived 30 years and became the father of Nahor. 23Serug lived 200 years after he became the father of Nahor, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
24Nahor lived 29 years and became the father of Terah. 25Nahor lived 119 years after he became the father of Terah, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
26Terah lived 70 years and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
The Development of the Family of Terah
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. 28Haran died before his father Terah. He died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah. 30Sarai was barren. She had no child.
31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, who was the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, who was the wife of his son Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. 32The days of Terah were 205 years. Terah died in Haran.
Footnotes
- 11:9 Babel sounds like the Hebrew word for confusion.
- 11:13 Some manuscripts of the Greek Old Testament have an extra generation between Arphaxad and Shelah: Cainan (also called Kenan) lived 130 years and became the father of Shelah. Cainan lived 330 years after he had become the father of Shelah, and he became the father of sons and daughters. Cainan occurs in the Greek Old Testament of Genesis 10:24; 11:12-13; and some texts of 1 Chronicles 1:24 (or some textual resources say verse 18). It also occurs in most manuscripts of Luke 3:36. Manuscripts without Cainan include all passages of the Hebrew text (Genesis 10:24; 11:12-13; 1 Chronicles 1:18, 24), the Samaritan Pentateuch, 1 Chronicles 1:24 in the Greek Old Testament [sic], the Targums of Jonathan and Onkelos, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Latin Vulgate. It appears that Cainan was not part of the Hebrew text. (It should be noted that there are numerous discrepancies in the textual commentaries about this issue, especially concerning the Greek Old Testament, as is true of many other textual issues.)
- 11:27 Or the account of the subsequent history