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Genesis 11 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Gen 11:1

Gen 11:1And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

Gen 11:2

Gen 11:2And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

Gen 11:3

Gen 11:3And 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.

Gen 11:4

Gen 11:4And 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.

Gen 11:5

Gen 11:5And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Gen 11:6

Gen 11:6And 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.

Gen 11:7

Gen 11:7Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

Gen 11:8

Gen 11:8So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.

Gen 11:9

Gen 11:9Therefore 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.

Descendants of Shem

(1Ch 1:17–27; Luk 3:34–36 )

Gen 11:10

Gen 11:10These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood:

Gen 11:11

Gen 11:11and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Gen 11:12

Gen 11:12And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelah:

Gen 11:13

Gen 11:13and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

Gen 11:14

Gen 11:14And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

Gen 11:15

Gen 11:15and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

Gen 11:16

Gen 11:16And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

Gen 11:17

Gen 11:17and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

Gen 11:18

Gen 11:18And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

Gen 11:19

Gen 11:19and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

Gen 11:20

Gen 11:20And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

Gen 11:21

Gen 11:21and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

Gen 11:22

Gen 11:22And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

Gen 11:23

Gen 11:23and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Gen 11:24

Gen 11:24And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

Gen 11:25

Gen 11:25and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

Gen 11:26

Gen 11:26And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Gen 11:27

Gen 11:27Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

Gen 11:28

Gen 11:28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

Gen 11:29

Gen 11:29And 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.

Gen 11:30

Gen 11:30And Sarai was barren; She had no child.

Gen 11:31

Gen 11:31And 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.

Gen 11:32

Gen 11:32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
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