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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/genesis/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Tower of Babel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>At one time all the people of the world spoke the same language and used the same words. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>As the people migrated to the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> and settled there.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They began saying to each other, “Let’s make bricks and harden them with fire.” (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But the LORD came down to look at the city and the tower the people were building. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Look!” he said. “The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>In that way, the LORD scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>That is why the city was called Babel,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> because that is where the LORD confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.</p><p class="hdg">The Line of Descent from Shem to Abram</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>This is the account of Shem’s family.</p><p class="b"/><p class="li1">Two years after the great flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> Arphaxad. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>After the birth of<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> Arphaxad, Shem lived another 500 years and had other sons and daughters.</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>After the birth of Shelah, Arphaxad lived another 403 years and had other sons and daughters.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a></p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>After the birth of Eber, Shelah lived another 403 years and had other sons and daughters.</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>After the birth of Peleg, Eber lived another 430 years and had other sons and daughters.</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>After the birth of Reu, Peleg lived another 209 years and had other sons and daughters.</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>After the birth of Serug, Reu lived another 207 years and had other sons and daughters.</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>After the birth of Nahor, Serug lived another 200 years and had other sons and daughters.</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>After the birth of Terah, Nahor lived another 119 years and had other sons and daughters.</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>After Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.</p><p class="hdg">The Family of Terah</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>This is the account of Terah’s family. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, the land of his birth, while his father, Terah, was still living. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Meanwhile, Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah. (Milcah and her sister Iscah were daughters of Nahor’s brother Haran.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>But Sarai was unable to become pregnant and had no children.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram’s wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran’s child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Terah lived for 205 years<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> and died while still in Haran.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Shinar.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Babylon.</span><span class="ft"> </span><span class="it">Babel</span><span class="ft"> sounds like a Hebrew term that means “confusion.”</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the ancestor of;</span><span class="ft"> also in 11:12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the birth of this ancestor of;</span><span class="ft"> also in 11:13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:12-13 </span><span class="ft">Greek version reads </span><span class="fv">12</span><span class="it">When Arphaxad was 135 years old, he became the father of Cainan.</span><span class="ft"> </span><span class="fv">13</span><span class="it">After the birth of Cainan, Arphaxad lived another 430 years and had other sons and daughters, and then he died. When Cainan was 130 years old, he became the father of Shelah. After the birth of Shelah, Cainan lived another 330 years and had other sons and daughters, and then he died.</span><span class="ft"> Compare Luke 3:35-36.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:32 </span><span class="ft">Some ancient versions read </span><span class="it">145 years;</span><span class="ft"> compare 11:26 and 12:4.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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