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Genesis 11 :: New English Translation (NET)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:1 - The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:2 - When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - Then they said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5 - But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6 - And the LORD said, "If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - Come, let's go down and confuse their language so they won't be able to understand each other."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:9 - That is why its name was called Babel - because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

Descendants of Shem

(1Ch 1:17–27; Luk 3:34–36 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:10 - This is the account of Shem. Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:11 - And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:12 - When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:13 - And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:14 - When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:15 - And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:16 - When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:17 - And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:18 - When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:19 - And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:20 - When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:21 - And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:22 - When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:23 - And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:24 - When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:25 - And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:26 - When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27 - This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:28 - Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was still alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29 - And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. 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 both Milcah and Iscah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:30 - But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:32 - The lifetime of Terah was 205 years, and he died in Haran.
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Genesis Chapter 11 — Additional Translations:

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