Genesis 11
1NOW when the whole earth was of one lip and all had one voice,
2it came to pass as they were moving from the east that they found a plain in the land of Sennaar and settled there.
3And they said one to another, Come let us make bricks and bake them with fire. Now the bricks served them for stone and their mortar was asphalt.
4And they said, Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which shall be up to heaven; and let us make a name for ourselves before we be scattered on the face of the whole earth.
5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men were building.
6And the Lord said, Behold they are all of one race and one lip. And this they have begun to do; and now nothing will fail of all which they may determine to do.
7Come, let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand each other’s voice.
8So the Lord dispersed them from that place over the face of the whole earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
9For this cause the name of it was called CONFUSION [Babel], because there the Lord confounded the lips of the whole earth, and dispersed them thence over the face of the whole earth.
10Now these are the generations of Sem. Sem was an hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad the second year after the flood.
11And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad five hundred years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
12And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years and begot Kainan. And Arphaxad lived after he begot Kainan four hundred years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
13And Kainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Kainan lived after he begot Sala three hundred and thirty years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
14And Sala lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Eber;
15and Sala lived after he begot Eber three hundred and thirty years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
16And Eber lived a hundred and thirty-four years and begot Phaleg;
17and Eber lived after he begot Phaleg two hundred and seventy years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
18And Phaleg lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Ragau;
19and Phaleg lived after he begot Ragau two hundred and nine years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
20And Ragau lived a hundred and thirty-two years and begot Serouch;
21and Ragau lived after he begot Serouch two hundred and seven years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
22And Serouch lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Nachor;
23and Serouch lived after he begot Nachor two hundred years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
24And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years and begot Tharra;
25and Nachor lived after he begot Tharra a hundred and twenty-five years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
26And Tharra lived seventy years and begot Abram and Nachor and Arran.
27Now these are the generations of Tharra. Tharra begot Abram and Nachor and Arran; and Arran begot Lot.
28And Arran died in the presence of his father Tharra in the land in which he was born in the country of the Chaldeans.
29And Abram and Nachor took themselves wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sara, and the name of Nachor’s wife, Malcha, a daughter of Arran, who was the father of Malcha and the father of Jescha.
30And Sara was barren and did not bear children.
31And Tharra took Abram his son and Lot the son of Arran, his grandson, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram, and led them out of the country of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Chanaan. But when they came to Charran he took up his abode there.
32And in the land of Charran, all the days of Tharra were two hundred and five years. And Tharra died in Charran.