Chapter 11

¹And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words, ²and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there; ³and they say each one to his neighbour, `Give help, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly:` and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar. ⁴And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.` ⁵And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded; ⁶and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people [is] one, and one pronunciation [is] to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do. <sup>7</sup>Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.` ⁸And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city; ⁹therefore hath [one] called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth. ¹⁰These [are] births of Shem: Shem [is] a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge. ¹¹And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters. ¹²And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah. ¹³And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters. ¹⁴And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber. ¹⁵And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters. ¹⁶And Eber liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg. ¹⁷And Eber liveth after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters. ¹⁸And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu. ¹⁹And Peleg liveth after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begetteth sons and daughters. ²⁰And Reu liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug. ²¹And Reu liveth after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters. ²²And Serug liveth thirty years, and begetteth Nahor. ²³And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters. ²⁴And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah. ²⁵And Nahor liveth after his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters. ²⁶And Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth Abram, Nahor, and Haran. ²⁷And these [are] births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot; ²⁸and Haran dieth in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. ²⁹And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram`s wife [is] Sarai, and the name of Nahor`s wife [is] Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah. ³⁰And Sarai is barren -- she hath no child. ³¹And Terah taketh Abram his son, and Lot, son of Haran, his son`s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come unto Charan, and dwell there. ³²And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan.