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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/genesis/11.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</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 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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And they said one to another: ‘Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.’ And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And they said: ‘Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the LORD said: ‘Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">a</a></span>confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arpachshad two years after the flood. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Shem lived after he begot Arpachshad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begot Shelah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Shelah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Sarai was barren; she had no child. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.<hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><br>{fn: a} Heb. Balal, to confound.</span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/12.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 12"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 12" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/genesis/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>