Genesis 11:5-15

5 descendit autem Dominus ut videret civitatem et turrem quam aedificabant filii Adam

6 et dixit ecce unus est populus et unum labium omnibus coeperuntque hoc facere nec desistent a cogitationibus suis donec eas opere conpleant

7 venite igitur descendamus et confundamus ibi linguam eorum ut non audiat unusquisque vocem proximi sui

8 atque ita divisit eos Dominus ex illo loco in universas terras et cessaverunt aedificare civitatem

9 et idcirco vocatum est nomen eius Babel quia ibi confusum est labium universae terrae et inde dispersit eos Dominus super faciem cunctarum regionum

10 hae generationes Sem Sem centum erat annorum quando genuit Arfaxad biennio post diluvium

11 vixitque Sem postquam genuit Arfaxad quingentos annos et genuit filios et filias

12 porro Arfaxad vixit triginta quinque annos et genuit Sale

13 vixitque Arfaxad postquam genuit Sale trecentis tribus annis et genuit filios et filias

14 Sale quoque vixit triginta annis et genuit Eber

15 vixitque Sale postquam genuit Eber quadringentis tribus annis et genuit filios et filias

Genesis 11:5-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 11

This chapter gives an account of the inhabitants of the earth before the confusion of tongues at Babel, of their speech and language, which was one and the same, and of the place where they dwelt, Ge 11:1,2 and of their design to build a city and tower, to make them a name and keep them together, which they put in execution, Ge 11:3,4 of the notice the Lord took of this affair, and of the method he took to put a stop to their designs, by confounding their speech, and dispersing them abroad upon the face of the earth, Ge 11:5-9 then follows a genealogy of Shem's posterity down to Abraham, Ge 11:10-26 and a particular relation is given of Terah, the father of Abraham, and his family, and of his going forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, in order to go into the land of Canaan, and of his death at Haran by the way, Ge 11:27-32.