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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 Amplified Bible</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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</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="../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">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/genesis/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Universal Language, Babel, Confusion</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now the whole earth <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>spoke one language and used the same words (vocabulary). <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they settled there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They said one to another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly [in a kiln, to harden and strengthen them].” So they used brick for stone [as building material], and they used tar (bitumen, asphalt) for mortar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They said, “Come, let us build a city for ourselves, and a tower whose top <i>will reach</i> into the heavens, and let us make a [famous] name for ourselves, so that we will not be scattered [into separate groups] <i>and</i> be dispersed over the surface of the entire earth [as the LORD instructed].” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one [unified] people, and they all have the same language. This is only the beginning of what they will do [in rebellion against Me], and now no evil thing they imagine they can do will be impossible for them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Come, let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) go down and there confuse <i>and</i> mix up their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the surface of the entire earth; and they stopped building the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore the name of the city was <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>Babel--because there the LORD confused the language of the entire earth; and from that place the LORD scattered <i>and</i> dispersed them over the surface of all the earth. <p class="hdg">Descendants of Shem</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>These are <i>the records of</i> the generations of Shem [from whom Abraham descended]. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the flood. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Shem lived five hundred years after Arpachshad was born, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When Arpachshad had lived thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after Shelah was born, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Shelah lived four hundred and three years after Eber was born, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after Peleg was born, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When Peleg had lived thirty years, he became the father of Reu. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after Reu was born, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When Reu had lived thirty-two years, he became the father of Serug. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Reu lived two hundred and seven years after Serug was born, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When Serug had lived thirty years, he became the father of Nahor. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Serug lived two hundred years after Nahor was born, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years after Terah was born, and he had <i>other</i> sons and daughters. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>After Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>Abram and Nahor and Haran [his firstborn]. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Now these are <i>the records of</i> the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram (Abraham), Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>Ur of the Chaldeans. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai (later called Sarah), and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>But Sarai was barren; she did not have a child. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-31.htm"><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 Abram’s wife; and they went out together to go from Ur of the Chaldeans into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran [about five hundred and fifty miles northwest of Ur], they settled there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Terah lived two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Lit <i>was one lip</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> The word “Babel” is similar to the word “confuse” (Heb <i>balal)</i>, but not identical.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> Abram (Abraham) is mentioned first because of his importance, not his birth order.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> Abram’s home town was Ur of the Chaldeans. As the result of extensive archeological excavations there in 1922-34, a great deal is known about Abram’s background. The house of the average middle-class person had from ten to twenty rooms and measured forty to fifty-two feet; the lower floor was for servants, the upper floor for the family, with five rooms for their use; additionally, there was a guest chamber and a lavatory reserved for visitors, and a private chapel. A school was found and what the students studied was shown by the clay tablets discovered there. In the days of Abram the pupils had reading, writing, and arithmetic as today. They learned the multiplication and division tables and even worked at square and cube roots. A bill of lading of about 2040 B.C. (about the era in which Abram is believed to have lived) showed that the commerce of that time was far-reaching. 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