Genesis 11:8-18

8 Thus ye LORde skatered them from thence vppon all the erth. And they left of to buylde the cyte.

9 Wherfore the name of it is called Babell because that the LORDE there confounded the tonge of all the world. And because that the LORde from thence skatered them abrode vppon all the erth.

10 These are the generations of Sem: Se was an hundred yere olde and begat Arcphachsad ij. yere after the floude.

11 And Se lyved after he had begot Arphachsad .v. hundred yere an begat sonnes and doughters.

12 And Arphacsad lyued .xxxv. yere and begat Sala

13 and lyved after he had begot Sala iiij. hudred yere and .iij and begat sonnes and doughters.

14 And Sala was .xxx. yere old and begat Eber

15 ad lyued after he had begot Eber .iiij. hudred and thre yere ad begat sonnes and doughters

16 When Eber was .xxxiiij. yere olde he begat Peleg

17 and lyued after he had begot Peleg foure hundred and .xxx. yere and begat sonnes and doughters.

18 And Peleg when he was .xxx. yere olde begat Regu

Genesis 11:8-18 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.