<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000001">Genesis</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000279">Chapter 11</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1000246">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1000312">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Primeval History</em></p><p><em>The City of Babel and the Generations of Shem</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000280">1</a>. AND the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000281">2</a>. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000282">3</a>. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly.  And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000283">4</a>. And they said, Go to, 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000284">5</a>. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000285">6</a>. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000286">7</a>. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000287">8</a>. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000288">9</a>. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000289">10</a>. These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000290">11</a>. And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000291">12</a>. And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000292">13</a>. And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000293">14</a>. And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000294">15</a>. And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000295">16</a>. And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000296">17</a>. And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000297">18</a>. And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000298">19</a>. And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000299">20</a>. And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000300">21</a>. And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000301">22</a>. And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000302">23</a>. And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000303">24</a>. And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000304">25</a>. And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000305">26</a>. And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000306">27</a>. Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000307">28</a>. And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000308">29</a>. And 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000309">30</a>. But Sarai was barren; she had no child.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000310">31</a>. And 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000311">32</a>. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.</li>
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