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They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And God came down to see the city and the tower, that humankind was building. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And God said, "Look, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. So now nothing which they plan to do will be too difficult for them. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then God scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth; so they ceased building the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore its name was called Babel, because there God confused the language of all the earth. From there he scattered them over the face of the whole earth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and fathered sons and daughters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Arpachshad lived one-hundred and thirty-five years and became the father of Kenan. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Arpachshad lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Kenan, and fathered sons and daughters. And Kenan lived one hundred and thirty years and became the father of Shelah. And Kenan lived after he had become the father of Shelah three hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Shelah lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Eber: <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and fathered sons and daughters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Eber lived one hundred and thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Eber lived three hundred and seventy years after he became the father of Peleg, and fathered sons and daughters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Peleg lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Reu. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and fathered sons and daughters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Reu lived one hundred and thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and fathered sons and daughters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Serug lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Nahor. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and fathered sons and daughters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Nahor lived seventy-nine years, and became the father of Terah. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Nahor lived one hundred and twenty-nine years after he became the father of Terah, and fathered sons and daughters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur Kasdim. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Sarai was barren. She had no child.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram抯 wife, and with them he set out from Ur Kasdim to go into the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/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.<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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