11:1 At that time all the people
had one language
and a common purpose.
11:2 Then some travelled eastward
and found a valley in
and there they settled.
11:3 They said to one another:
Let’s make bricks
and bake them completely.
So they used brick instead of stone
and used tar for mortar.
11:4 Then they said:
Let’s build a city
with a tower top that reaches the sky
to make a name for ourselves.
Otherwise we will be
spread all over the land.
11:5 But Yahweh looked down
to and the tower the people were building.
11:6 And Yahweh declared:
If the people are united
and speak the same language
have begun to do this
nothing they plan to do
will be impossible.
11:7 Let us go down
and mix their language
so they won’t understand each other.
11:8 Because of Yahweh
they became spread out
throughout all the land
and stopped building the city.
11:9 Thus it was named
because there Yahweh mixed
the language of the whole land.
Thus Yahweh spread them out
throughout the lands of the region.
11:10 This is the lineage of Shem:
Shem was 100 years old when he
brought forth Arphaxad.
This was two years after the flood.
11:11 After bringing forth Arphaxad
Shem lived for 500 years
and had other sons and daughters.
11:12 When Arphaxad was 35 years old
he brought forth Shelah.
11:13 After bringing forth Shelah
Arphaxad lived for 403 years
and had other sons and daughters.
11:14 When Shelah was 30 years old
he brought forth Eber.
11:15 After bringing forth Eber
Shelah lived 403 years and
had other sons and daughters.
11:16 When Eber was 34 years old
he brought forth Peleg.
11:17 After bringing forth Peleg
Eber lived 430 years
and had other sons and daughters.
11:18 When Peleg was 30 years old
he brought forth Reu.
11:19 After bringing forth Reu
Peleg lived 209 years
and had other sons and daughters.
11:20 When Reu was 32 years old
he brought forth Serug.
11:21 After he brought forth Serug
Reu lived 207 years
and had other sons and daughters.
11:22 When Serug was 30 years old
he brought forth Nahor.
11:23 After he brought forth Nahor
Serug lived 200 years
and had other sons and daughters.
11:24 When Nahor was 29 years old
he brought forth Terah.
11:25 After bringing forth Terah
Nahor lived 119 years
and had other sons and daughters.
11:26 When Terah was 70 years old
he brought forth Abram, Nahor and
11:27 This is the account of Terah's ancestry:
Terah brought forth Abram, Nahor and
Then
11:28 While his father Terah was still alive
in the land he was born.
11:29 Abram and Nahor both married.
The name of Abram's wife was Sarai
and the name of Nahor's wife was Milkah
she was the daughter of
the father of both Milkah and Iskah.
11:30 Sarai was childless
she was not able to conceive.
11:31 Terah took his son Abram
his grandson Lot son of
and his daughter-in-law Sarai
the wife of his son Abram
and together they traveled
from the Chaldeans’
When they came to
they settled there.
11:32 Terah lived 205 years
and passed away in
