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<span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and they say each one to his neighbour, ‘Give help, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly:’ and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And they say, ‘Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and Jehovah saith, ‘Lo, the people [is] one, and one pronunciation [is] to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>therefore hath [one] called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over 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] births of Shem: Shem [is] a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Eber liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Eber liveth after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Peleg liveth after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begetteth sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Reu liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Reu liveth after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Serug liveth thirty years, and begetteth Nahor. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Nahor liveth after his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth 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>And these [are] births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>and Haran dieth in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram’s wife [is] Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife [is] Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Sarai is barren — she hath no child.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Terah taketh Abram his son, and Lot, son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come unto Charan, and dwell there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<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="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /></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'; 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