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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 MSB</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="../">MSB</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="/msb/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">Majority Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/genesis/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Tower of Babel<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../deuteronomy/32.htm#8">Deuteronomy 32:8</a>; <a href ="../acts/2.htm">Acts 2:1–13</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And as people journeyed eastward,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> they found a plain in the land of Shinar<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> and settled there. <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.” <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>That is why it is called Babel,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth. <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Genealogy from Shem to Abram<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_chronicles/1.htm#17">1 Chronicles 1:17–27</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters. <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters. <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters. <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters. <A name="27"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. <A name="28"></a><p class="hdg">Terah’s Descendants<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. <A name="30"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>But Sarai was barren; she had no children. <A name="32"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>from the east</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>in the east</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> That is, Babylonia<br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>Babylon</i><span class="thin"> </span>; the Hebrew word for <i>Babel</i><span class="thin"> </span> sounds like the Hebrew for <i>confused</i><span class="thin"> </span>.<br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Hebrew; LXX (see also <a href="../luke/3.htm#35">Luke 3:35–36</a>) <i><span class="fnv">12</span>When Arphaxad was 135 years old, he became the father of Cainan. <span class="fnv">13</span>And after he had become the father of Cainan, Arphaxad lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters, and then he died. When Cainan had lived 130 years, he became the father of Shelah. And after he had become the father of Shelah, Cainan lived 330 years and had other sons and daughters.</i><span class="thin"> </span> Note that LXX also adds 100 years to the ages of Shelah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, and Nahor in this genealogy.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, Majority Standard Bible, MSB is produced in cooperation with <a href=//biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a>, <a href=//discoverybible.com>Discovery Bible</a>, <a href=//openbible.com>OpenBible.com</a>, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. 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