NETtext - Genesis - 11

11:1  The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

11:2  When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

11:3  Then they said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)

11:4  Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."

11:5  But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

11:6  And the LORD said, "If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.

11:7  Come, let's go down and confuse their language so they won't be able to understand each other."

11:8  So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

11:9  That is why its name was called Babel - because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

11:10  This is the account of Shem.Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

11:11  And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

11:12  When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.

11:13  And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

11:14  When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.

11:15  And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

11:16  When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.

11:17  And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

11:18  When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.

11:19  And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

11:20  When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.

11:21  And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

11:22  When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.

11:23  And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

11:24  When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

11:25  And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

11:26  When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

11:27  This is the account of Terah.Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

11:28  Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was still alive.

11:29  And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

11:30  But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

11:31  Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

11:32  The lifetime of Terah was 205 years, and he died in Haran.