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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 Lamsa Bible</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><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="../">Lamsa</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">Lamsa Bible</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"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>NOW the whole earth spoke one language and with one manner of speech. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>And it came to pass, as men journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sinar; and they settled there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them with fire. And they had bricks for stone, and slime for mortar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>Then they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which men were building. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>And the LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and they have reasoned to do this thing; and now nothing will prevent them from doing that which they have imagined to do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>Come, let us go down, and there divide their language so that they may not understand one another's speech. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>So the LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth; and they ceased from building the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore they called the name of it Babel; because it was there that the LORD confounded the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them upon the face of all the earth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>These are the descendants of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphakhashar, two years after the flood; <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>And Shem lived after he begot Arphakhashar five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>And Arphakhashar lived thirty-five years, and begot Shalah; <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>And Arphakhashar lived after he begot Shalah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>And Shalah lived thirty years, and begot Eber; <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>And Shalah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg: <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-17.htm#aramaic"><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="/parallel/genesis/11-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Rau; <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>And Peleg lived after he begot Rau two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>And Rau lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug; <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>And Rau lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor; <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-23.htm#aramaic"><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="/parallel/genesis/11-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah; <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>And Nahor lived after he begot Terah one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>And Terah lived seventy-five years, and begot Abram, manor, and Haran.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>Now these are the descendants of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves; 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 Iscah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-30.htm#aramaic"><b>30</b></a></span>But Sarai was barren; she had no child.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-31.htm#aramaic"><b>31</b></a></span>And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan: and they came as far as Haran, and they settled there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/11-32.htm#aramaic"><b>32</b></a></span>And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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