Genesis 10; Genesis 11; Genesis 12

1 These are the descendants of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, to whom children were born after the flood.

2 Japheth's sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

3 Gomer's sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

4 Javan's sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

5 From these the island-nations were divided into their own countries, each according to their languages and their clans within their nations.

6 Ham's sons: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

7 Cush's sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah's sons: Sheba and Dedan.

8 Cush fathered Nimrod, the first great warrior on earth.

9 The LORD saw him as a great hunter, and so it is said, "Like Nimrod, whom the LORD saw as a great hunter."

10 The most important cities in his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.

11 Asshur left that land and built Nineveh, Rehoboth City, Calah,

12 and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.

13 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

14 Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim, from which the Philistines came.

15 Canaan fathered Sidon his oldest son, and Heth,

16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. After this the Canaanite clans were dispersed.

19 The Canaanite boundary extends from Sidon by way of Gerar to Gaza and by way of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim to Lasha.

20 These are Ham's sons according to their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

21 Children were also born to Shem the father of all Eber's children and Japheth's older brother.

22 Shem's sons: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

23 Aram's sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

24 Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.

25 To Eber were born two sons: The first was named Peleg, because during his lifetime the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.

26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All of these were Joktan's sons.

30 Their settlements extended from Mesha by way of Sephar, the eastern mountains.

31 These are Shem's sons according to their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

32 These are the clans of Noah's sons according to their generations and their nations. From them the earth's nations branched out after the flood.

1 All people on the earth had one language and the same words.

2 When they traveled east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.

3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them hard." They used bricks for stones and asphalt for mortar.

4 They said, "Come, let's build for ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and let's make a name for ourselves so that we won't be dispersed over all the earth."

5 Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the humans built.

6 And the LORD said, "There is now one people and they all have one language. This is what they have begun to do, and now all that they plan to do will be possible for them.

7 Come, let's go down and mix up their language there so they won't understand each other's language."

8 Then the LORD dispersed them from there over all of the earth, and they stopped building the city.

9 Therefore, it is named Babel, because there the LORD mixed up the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD dispersed them over all the earth.

10 These are Shem's descendants. When Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

11 After Arpachshad was born, Shem lived 500 years; he had other sons and daughters.

12 When Arpachshad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.

13 After Shelah was born, Arpachshad lived 403 years; he had other sons and daughters.

14 When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.

15 After Eber was born, Shelah lived 403 years; he had other sons and daughters.

16 When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.

17 After Peleg was born, Eber lived 430 years; he had other sons and daughters.

18 When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.

19 After Reu was born, Peleg lived 209 years; he had other sons and daughters.

20 When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.

21 After Serug was born, Reu lived 207 years; he had other sons and daughters.

22 When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.

23 After Nahor was born, Serug lived 200 years; he had other sons and daughters.

24 When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.

25 After Terah was born, Nahor lived 119 years; he had other sons and daughters.

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

27 These are Terah's descendants. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

28 Haran died while with his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

29 Abram and Nahor both married; Abram's wife was Sarai, and Nahor's wife was Milcah the daughter of Haran, father of both Milcah and Iscah.

30 Sarai was unable to have children.

31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (son of Haran), and his son Abram's wife, Sarai his daughter-in-law. They left Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan, and arriving at Haran, they settled there.

32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.

1 The LORD said to Abram, "Leave your land, your family, and your father's household for the land that I will show you.

2 I will make of you a great nation and will bless you. I will make your name respected, and you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you, those who curse you I will curse; all the families of the earth will be blessed because of you."

4 Abram left just as the LORD told him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.

5 Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all of their possessions, and those who became members of their household in Haran; and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,

6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the sacred place at Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. The Canaanites lived in the land at that time.

7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I give this land to your descendants," so Abram built an altar there to the LORD who appeared to him.

8 From there he traveled toward the mountains east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and worshipped in the LORD's name.

9 Then Abram set out toward the arid southern plain, making and breaking camp as he went.

10 When a famine struck the land, Abram went down toward Egypt to live as an immigrant since the famine was so severe in the land.

11 Just before he arrived in Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "I know you are a good-looking woman.

12 When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife,' and they will kill me but let you live.

13 So tell them you are my sister so that they will treat me well for your sake, and I will survive because of you."

14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw how beautiful his wife was.

15 When Pharaoh's princes saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's household.

16 Things went well for Abram because of her: he acquired flocks, cattle, male donkeys, men servants, women servants, female donkeys, and camels.

17 Then the LORD struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram's wife Sarai.

18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What's this you've done to me? Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?

19 Why did you say, ‘She's my sister,' so that I made her my wife? Now, here's your wife. Take her and go!"

20 Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they expelled him with his wife and everything he had.