Genesis 11 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

The Tower of Babel

Gen 11:1Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.

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

Gen 11:3

Gen 11:3Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

Gen 11:4

Gen 11:4And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

Gen 11:5

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

Gen 11:6

Gen 11:6And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.

Gen 11:7

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

Gen 11:8

Gen 11:8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

Gen 11:9

Gen 11:9Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

Shem’s Descendants

(1 Chr. 1:17–27; Luke 3:34–36 )

Gen 11:10

Gen 11:10This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.

Gen 11:11

Gen 11:11After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

Gen 11:12

Gen 11:12Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah.

Gen 11:13

Gen 11:13After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

Gen 11:14

Gen 11:14Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

Gen 11:15

Gen 11:15After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

Gen 11:16

Gen 11:16Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.

Gen 11:17

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

Gen 11:18

Gen 11:18Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

Gen 11:19

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

Gen 11:20

Gen 11:20Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.

Gen 11:21

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

Gen 11:22

Gen 11:22Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

Gen 11:23

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

Gen 11:24

Gen 11:24Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.

Gen 11:25

Gen 11:25After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

Gen 11:26

Gen 11:26Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Terah’s Descendants

Gen 11:27

Gen 11:27This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot.

Gen 11:28

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

Gen 11:29

Gen 11:29Then Abram and Nahor took 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 11:30But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Gen 11:31

Gen 11:31And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.

Gen 11:32

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

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