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Genesis 11

Good News Translation GNT

1 At first, the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words.

2 As they wandered about in the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia and settled there.

3 They said to one another, "Come on! Let's make bricks and bake them hard." So they had bricks to build with and tar to hold them together.

4 They said, "Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth."

5 Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which they had built,

6 and he said, "Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want!

7 Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other."

8 So the Lord scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.

9 The city was called Babylon, because there the Lord mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.

10 These are the descendants of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he had a son, Arpachshad.

11 After that, he lived another 500 years and had other children.

12 When Arpachshad was 35 years old, he had a son, Shelah;

13 after that, he lived another 403 years and had other children.

14 When Shelah was 30 years old, he had a son, Eber;

15 after that, he lived another 403 years and had other children.

16 When Eber was 34 years old, he had a son, Peleg;

17 after that, he lived another 430 years and had other children.

18 When Peleg was 30 years old, he had a son, Reu;

19 after that, he lived another 209 years and had other children.

20 When Reu was 32 years old, he had a son, Serug;

21 after that, he lived another 207 years and had other children.

22 When Serug was 30 years old, he had a son, Nahor;

23 after that, he lived another 200 years and had other children.

24 When Nahor was 29 years old, he had a son, Terah;

25 after that, he lived another 119 years and had other children.

26 After Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 These are the descendants of Terah, who was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran was the father of Lot,

28 and Haran died in his hometown of Ur in Babylonia, while his father was still living.

29 Abram married Sarai, and Nahor married Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.

30 Sarai was not able to have children.

31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, who was the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, Abram's wife, and with them he left the city of Ur in Babylonia to go to the land of Canaan. They went as far as Haran and settled there.

32 Terah died there at the age of 205.

World English Bible WEB

1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

2 It happened, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they lived there.

3 They said one to another, "Come, let's make brick, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

4 They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

6 Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

9 Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

10 This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

11 Shem lived after he became the father of Arpachshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah.

13 Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

14 Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:

15 and Shelah lived after he became the father of Eber four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.

17 Eber lived after he became the father of Peleg four hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

18 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.

19 Peleg lived after he became the father of Reu two hundred nine years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.

21 Reu lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

22 Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.

23 Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

25 Nahor lived after he became the father of Terah one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

28 Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

29 Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.

30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.

31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran, and lived there.

32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.