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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 11 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Genesis 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/10.htm" title="Genesis 10">◄</a> Genesis 11 <a href="../genesis/12.htm" title="Genesis 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Tower of Babel<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../deuteronomy/32.htm#8">Deuteronomy 32:8</a>; <a href ="../acts/2.htm">Acts 2:1–13</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And all the earth shall be one lip, and the same words. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And it shall be in their removing from the east they shall find a valley in the land of Shmar; and they shall dwell there. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And they shall say a man to his neighbor, Come, we will make bricks, and we will burn to a burning, and brick shall be to them for stone, and potter's clay shall be to them for potter's clay. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And they will say, Come, we will build to us a city, and a tower, its head to the heavens; and we will make to us a name, lest we shall be dispersed over the face of the earth. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Jehovah will come down to see the city, and the tower which the sons of men built. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say, Behold, the people one, and one lip to them all; and this they begin to do: and now it will not be restrained from them all which they shall imagine to do. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Come, we will come down and mix their lip that they shall not hear a man the lip of his neighbor. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Jehovah will disperse them from thence over the face of all the earth: and they will cease to build the city. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore its name was called confusion, for there Jehovah confounded the lip of all the earth: and from thence Jehovah dispersed them over the face of all the earth.<p> <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Genealogy from Shem to Abram<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_chronicles/1.htm#17">1 Chronicles 1:17–27</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>These the generations of Shem: Shem the son of a hundred years, and he will beget Arphaeshad, two years after the flood. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Shem shall live after his begetting Arphaeshad, five hundred years, and he shall beget sons and daughters.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Arphaeshad will live five and thirty years, and will beget Shelah. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Arphaeshad shall live after his begetting Shelah, three years and four hundred years, and he will beget sons and daughters.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Shelah will live thirty years and will beget Eber. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Shelah will live after his begetting Eber, three years and four hundred years, and will beget sons and daughters.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Eber will live four and thirty years and will beget Peleg. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Eber will live after his begetting Peleg, thirty years and four hundred years, and will beget sons and daughters.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Peleg will live thirty years and will beget Reu. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Peleg will live after his begetting Reu, nine years and two hundred years, and he will beget sons and daughters.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Reu will live two and thirty years, and he will beget Serug. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Reu shall live after his begetting Serug, seven years and two hundred years, and he will beget sons and daughters.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Serug will live thirty years and will beget Nahor. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Serug will live after his begetting Nahor, two hundred years, and will beget sons and daughters.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Nahor will live nine and twenty years, and will beget Terah. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Nahor will live after his begetting Terah, nineteen years and a hundred years, and he will beget sons and daughters.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Terah will live seventy years and will beget Abram, Nahor, and Haran.<p> <A name="28"></a><p class="hdg">Terah’s Descendants<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And these the generations of Terah: Terah begetting Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and Haran begetting Lot. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And Haran will die at the face of Terah his father in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Abram and Nahor will take to them wives, the name of Abram's wife Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Sarai shall be barren; to her not a child.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Terah will take 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 shall come forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to move to the land of Canaan and they will come to Haran, and will dwell there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And the days of Haran shall be five years and two hundred years; and Terah shall die in Haran.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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