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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 ASV</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../">ASV</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">American Standard Version</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">The Tower of Babel<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../daniel/1.htm">Daniel 1:1-7</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><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, whose top may reach unto 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 Jehovah 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 Jehovah 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 Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building 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 Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.</p> <p class="hdg">Genealogy from Shem to Abram</p><p class="reg"><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 begat 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 begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.</p> <p class="hdg">Terah's Descendants</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begat Lot. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And Haran died before 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.</p> <p class="reg"><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.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">American Standard Version, 1901<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><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 src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>