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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/genesis/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Tower of Babel</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> confused<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused">a</a></sup></span> the language of all the earth. And from there the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> dispersed them over the face of all the earth.</p> <p class="heading">Shem’s Descendants</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and had other sons and daughters.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and had other sons and daughters.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg 430 years and had other sons and daughters.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and had other sons and daughters.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and had other sons and daughters.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.</p> <p class="heading">Terah’s Descendants</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://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 the father of Milcah and Iscah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>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 together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> <i class="catch-word">Babel</i> sounds like the Hebrew for <i class="catch-word">confused</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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