Genesis 11 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Universal Language, Babel, Confusion

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

Gen 11:2And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Gen 11:3And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

Gen 11:4

Gen 11:4Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."

Gen 11:5

Gen 11:5And 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, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

Gen 11:7

Gen 11:7Come, 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 left off building the city.

Gen 11:9

Gen 11:9Therefore its name was called Ba'bel, 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.

Descendants of Shem

(1Ch 1:17–27; Luk 3:34–36 )

Gen 11:10

Gen 11:10These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was a hundred years old, he became the father of Arpach'shad two years after the flood;

Gen 11:11

Gen 11:11and Shem lived after the birth of Arpach'shad five hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.

Gen 11:12

Gen 11:12When Arpach'shad had lived thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah;

Gen 11:13

Gen 11:13and Arpach'shad lived after the birth of Shelah four hundred and three years, and had other sons and daughters.

Gen 11:14

Gen 11:14When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber;

Gen 11:15

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

Gen 11:16

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

Gen 11:17

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

Gen 11:18

Gen 11:18When Peleg had lived thirty years, he became the father of Re'u;

Gen 11:19

Gen 11:19and Peleg lived after the birth of Re'u two hundred and nine years, and had other sons and daughters.

Gen 11:20

Gen 11:20When Re'u had lived thirty-two years, he became the father of Serug;

Gen 11:21

Gen 11:21and Re'u lived after the birth of Serug two hundred and seven years, and had other sons and daughters.

Gen 11:22

Gen 11:22When Serug had lived thirty years, he became the father of Nahor;

Gen 11:23

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

Gen 11:24

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

Gen 11:25

Gen 11:25and Nahor lived after the birth of Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and had other sons and daughters.

Gen 11:26

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

Gen 11:27

Gen 11:27Now these are the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

Gen 11:28

Gen 11:28Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chalde'ans.

Gen 11:29

Gen 11:29And Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of Abram's wife was Sar'ai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.

Gen 11:30

Gen 11:30Now Sar'ai 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 Sar'ai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chalde'ans to go into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Gen 11:32

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

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Genesis 11 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Universal Language, Babel, Confusion

Descendants of Shem

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