Previous Chapter Full Page Full Page Next Chapter

Genesis 11 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Universal Language, Babel, Confusion

Gen 11:1

Gen 11:1Now the whole earth [fn]used the same language and [fn]the same words.

Gen 11:2

Gen 11:2It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and [fn]settled there.

Gen 11:3

Gen 11:3They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Gen 11:4

Gen 11:4They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

Gen 11:5

Gen 11:5The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

Gen 11:6

Gen 11:6The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have [fn]the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be [fn]impossible for them.

Gen 11:7

Gen 11:7“Come, let Us go down and there confuse their [fn]language, so that they will not understand one another’s [fn]speech.”

Gen 11:8

Gen 11:8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.

Gen 11:9

Gen 11:9Therefore its name was called [fn]Babel, because there the LORD confused the [fn]language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.

Descendants of Shem

(1Ch 1:17–27; Luk 3:34–36 )

Gen 11:10

Gen 11:10These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and [fn]became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;

Gen 11:11

Gen 11:11and Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters.

Gen 11:12

Gen 11:12Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah;

Gen 11:13

Gen 11:13and Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters.

Gen 11:14

Gen 11:14Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber;

Gen 11:15

Gen 11:15and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and he had other sons and daughters.

Gen 11:16

Gen 11:16Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg;

Gen 11:17

Gen 11:17and Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and he had other sons and daughters.

Gen 11:18

Gen 11:18Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu;

Gen 11:19

Gen 11:19and Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and he had other sons and daughters.

Gen 11:20

Gen 11:20Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug;

Gen 11:21

Gen 11:21and Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and he had other sons and daughters.

Gen 11:22

Gen 11:22Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor;

Gen 11:23

Gen 11:23and Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and he had other sons and daughters.

Gen 11:24

Gen 11:24Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah;

Gen 11:25

Gen 11:25and Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and he had other sons and daughters.

Gen 11:26

Gen 11:26Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

Gen 11:27

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

Gen 11:28

Gen 11:28Haran died [fn]in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Gen 11:29

Gen 11:29Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah [fn]and Iscah.

Gen 11:30

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

Gen 11:31

Gen 11:31Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out [fn]together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and [fn]settled there.

Gen 11:32

Gen 11:32The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.
See the NASB95 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: was one lip
Or, few or one set of words
Literally: dwelt
Literally: one lip
Literally: withheld from
Literally: lip
Or, Babylon; cf Heb balal, confuse
Literally: lip
Literally: begot, and so throughout the chapter
Or, during the lifetime of
Literally: and the father of
Literally: with them
Literally: dwelt
Translation Copyright Logo

New American Standard Bible 1995
Copyright (c) 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
All rights reserved
https://www.lockman.org/new-american-standard-bible-nasb/

The "NASB," "NAS," "New American Standard Bible," and "New American Standard" trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by The Lockman Foundation. Use of these trademarks requires the permission of The Lockman Foundation.

For Permission To Quote visit http://www.lockman.org

For more information on this translation, see the NASB95 Preface.

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.