Genesis 11 : 1 (HCSB)
At one time the whole earth had the same language and vocabulary.
Genesis 11 : 2 (HCSB)
As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Genesis 11 : 3 (HCSB)
They said to each other, "Come, let us make oven-fired bricks." They had brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.
Genesis 11 : 4 (HCSB)
And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
Genesis 11 : 5 (HCSB)
Then the LORD came down to look over the city and the tower that the men were building.
Genesis 11 : 6 (HCSB)
The LORD said, "If, as one people all having the same language, they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
Genesis 11 : 7 (HCSB)
Come, let Us go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another's speech."
Genesis 11 : 8 (HCSB)
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.
Genesis 11 : 9 (HCSB)
Therefore its name is called Babylon, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11 : 10 (HCSB)
These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the deluge.
Genesis 11 : 11 (HCSB)
After he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.
Genesis 11 : 12 (HCSB)
Arpachshad lived 35 years and fathered Shelah.
Genesis 11 : 13 (HCSB)
After he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived 403 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.
Genesis 11 : 14 (HCSB)
Shelah lived 30 years and fathered Eber.
Genesis 11 : 15 (HCSB)
After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.
Genesis 11 : 16 (HCSB)
Eber lived 34 years and fathered Peleg.
Genesis 11 : 17 (HCSB)
After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.
Genesis 11 : 18 (HCSB)
Peleg lived 30 years and fathered Reu.
Genesis 11 : 19 (HCSB)
After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.
Genesis 11 : 20 (HCSB)
Reu lived 32 years and fathered Serug.
Genesis 11 : 21 (HCSB)
After he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.
Genesis 11 : 22 (HCSB)
Serug lived 30 years and fathered Nahor.
Genesis 11 : 23 (HCSB)
After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.
Genesis 11 : 24 (HCSB)
Nahor lived 29 years and fathered Terah.
Genesis 11 : 25 (HCSB)
After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.
Genesis 11 : 26 (HCSB)
Terah lived 70 years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11 : 27 (HCSB)
These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.
Genesis 11 : 28 (HCSB)
Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans, during his father Terah's lifetime.
Genesis 11 : 29 (HCSB)
Abram and Nahor took wives: Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife was named Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
Genesis 11 : 30 (HCSB)
Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Genesis 11 : 31 (HCSB)
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Genesis 11 : 32 (HCSB)
Terah lived 205 years and died in Haran.
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