JPS - Genesis - 11

11:1  And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

11:2  And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

11:3  And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

11:4  And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'

11:5  And HaShem came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

11:6  And HaShem said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.

11:7  Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'

11:8  So HaShem scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.

11:9  Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because HaShem did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did HaShem scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

11:10  These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arpachshad two years after the flood.

11:11  And Shem lived after he begot Arpachshad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

11:12  And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begot Shelah.

11:13  And Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

11:14  And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

11:15  And Shelah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

11:16  And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg.

11:17  And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

11:18  And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

11:19  And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

11:20  And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug.

11:21  And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

11:22  And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

11:23  And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

11:24  And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.

11:25  And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

11:26  And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

11:27  Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.

11:28  And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

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

11:30  And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

11:31  And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

11:32  And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.