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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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Tower of Babylon</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_11_1"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.1" class="v0_11_1">1</span>At first, the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words. </span><span class="v0_11_2"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.2" class="v0_11_2">2</span>As they wandered about in the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia and settled there. </span><span class="v0_11_3"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.3" class="v0_11_3">3</span>They said to one another, “Come on! Let's make bricks and bake them hard.” So they had bricks to build with and tar to hold them together. </span><span class="v0_11_4"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.4" class="v0_11_4">4</span>They said, “Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_11_5"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.5" class="v0_11_5">5</span>Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> came down to see the city and the tower which they had built, </span><span class="v0_11_6"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.6" class="v0_11_6">6</span>and he said, “Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want! </span><span class="v0_11_7"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.7" class="v0_11_7">7</span>Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other.” </span><span class="v0_11_8"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.8" class="v0_11_8">8</span>So the <span class="nd">Lord</span> scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. </span><span class="v0_11_9"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.9" class="v0_11_9">9</span>The city was called Babylon,<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.11.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> because there the <span class="nd">Lord</span> mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Descendants of Shem</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="1CH 1:24-27">1 Chronicles 1.24-27</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v0_11_10"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.10" class="v0_11_10">10</span>These are the descendants of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he had a son, Arpachshad. </span><span class="v0_11_11"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.11" class="v0_11_11">11</span>After that, he lived another 500 years and had other children.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_11_12"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.12" class="v0_11_12">12</span>When Arpachshad was 35 years old, he had a son, Shelah; </span><span class="v0_11_13"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.13" class="v0_11_13">13</span>after that, he lived another 403 years and had other children.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_11_14"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.14" class="v0_11_14">14</span>When Shelah was 30 years old, he had a son, Eber; </span><span class="v0_11_15"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.15" class="v0_11_15">15</span>after that, he lived another 403 years and had other children.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_11_16"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.16" class="v0_11_16">16</span>When Eber was 34 years old, he had a son, Peleg; </span><span class="v0_11_17"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.17" class="v0_11_17">17</span>after that, he lived another 430 years and had other children.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_11_18"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.18" class="v0_11_18">18</span>When Peleg was 30 years old, he had a son, Reu; </span><span class="v0_11_19"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.19" class="v0_11_19">19</span>after that, he lived another 209 years and had other children.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_11_20"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.20" class="v0_11_20">20</span>When Reu was 32 years old, he had a son, Serug; </span><span class="v0_11_21"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.21" class="v0_11_21">21</span>after that, he lived another 207 years and had other children.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_11_22"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.22" class="v0_11_22">22</span>When Serug was 30 years old, he had a son, Nahor; </span><span class="v0_11_23"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.23" class="v0_11_23">23</span>after that, he lived another 200 years and had other children.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_11_24"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.24" class="v0_11_24">24</span>When Nahor was 29 years old, he had a son, Terah; </span><span class="v0_11_25"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.25" class="v0_11_25">25</span>after that, he lived another 119 years and had other children.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_11_26"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.26" class="v0_11_26">26</span>After Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Descendants of Terah</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_11_27"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.27" class="v0_11_27">27</span>These are the descendants of Terah, who was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran was the father of Lot, </span><span class="v0_11_28"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.28" class="v0_11_28">28</span>and Haran died in his hometown of Ur in Babylonia, while his father was still living. </span><span class="v0_11_29"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.29" class="v0_11_29">29</span>Abram married Sarai, and Nahor married Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah. </span><span class="v0_11_30"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.30" class="v0_11_30">30</span>Sarai was not able to have children.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_11_31"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.31" class="v0_11_31">31</span>Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, who was the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, Abram's wife, and with them he left the city of Ur in Babylonia to go to the land of Canaan. They went as far as Haran and settled there. </span><span class="v0_11_32"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.11.32" class="v0_11_32">32</span>Terah died there at the age of 205.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.9: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Babylon: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This name sounds like the Hebrew for “mixed up.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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