Genesis Chapter 11 American Standard-ASV1901

Genesis 11:1

And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

Genesis 11:2

And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

Genesis 11:3

And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

Genesis 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.

Genesis 11:5

And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Genesis 11:6

And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Genesis 11:8

So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.

Genesis 11:9

Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Genesis 11:10

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Genesis 11:11

and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:12

And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelah.

Genesis 11:13

and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:14

And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

Genesis 11:15

and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:16

And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

Genesis 11:17

and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:18

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

Genesis 11:19

and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:20

And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

Genesis 11:21

and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:22

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

Genesis 11:23

and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:24

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

Genesis 11:25

and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:26

And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11:27

Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begat Lot.

Genesis 11:28

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

Genesis 11:29

And Abram and Nahor took them 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.

Genesis 11:30

And Sarai was barren; She had no child.

Genesis 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 Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

Genesis 11:32

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.