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And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>They said, Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top <i>will reach</i> into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> said, Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one anothers speech. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>So the L<font size="1">ORD</font> scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the L<font size="1">ORD</font> confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the L<font size="1">ORD</font> scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Descendants of Shem</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>These are <i>the records of</i> the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>and Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>and Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>and Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>and Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>and Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>and Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>and Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Now these are <i>the records of</i> the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abrams wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahors wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>Sarai was barren; she had no child.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-31.htm" target="_top"><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 Abrams wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/11-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>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">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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