Genesis 11

Thomson(i) 1 Now when the whole earth was of one lip and all had one voice, 2 it came to pass as they were moving from the east that they found a plain in the land of Sennaar and settled there. 3 And they said one to another, Come let us make bricks and bake them with fire. Now the bricks served them for stone and their mortar was asphaltus. 4 And they said, Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which shall be up to heaven; and let us make a name for ourselves before we be scattered on the face of the whole earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men were building. 6 And the Lord said, Behold they are all of one race and one lip. And this they have begun to do; and now nothing will fail of all which they may determine to do. 7 Come, let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand each other's voice. 8 So the Lord dispersed them from that place over the face of the whole earth, and they left off building the city and the tower. 9 For this cause the name of it was called CONFUSION, because there the Lord confounded the lips of the whole earth, and dispersed them thence over the face of the whole earth. 10 Now these are the generations of Sem. Sem was an hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad the second year after the flood. 11 And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad five hundred years and begot sons and daughters, and died. 12 And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty five years and begot Kainan. 13 And Arphaxad lived after he begot Kainan four hundred years and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Kainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Kainan lived after he begot Sala three hundred and thirty years and begot sons and daughters, and died. 14 And Sala lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Eber; and Sala lived after he begot Eber three hundred and thirty years and begot sons and daughters, and died. 16 And Eber lived a hundred and thirty four years and begot Phaleg; and Eber lived after he begot Phaleg two hundred and seventy years and begot sons and daughters, and died. 18 And Phaleg lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Ragau; 19 and Phaleg lived after he begot Ragau two hundred and nine years and begot sons and daughters, and died. 20 And Ragau lived a hundred and thirty two years and begot Serouch; 21 and Ragau lived after he begot Serouch two hundred and seven years and begot sons and daughters, and died. 22 And Serouch lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Nachor; 23 and Serouch lived after he begot Nachor two hundred years and begot sons and daughters, and died. 24 And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy nine years and begot Tharra; and Nachor lived after lie begot Tharra a hundred and twenty five years and begot sons and daughters, and died. 26 And Tharra lived seventy years and begot Abram and Nachor and Arran. 27 Now these are the generations of Tharra. Tharra begot Abram and Nachor and Arran; and Arran begot Lot. 28 And Arran died in the presence of his father Tharra in the land in which he was born in the country of the Chaldees. 29 And Abram and Nachor took themselves wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sara, and the name of Nachor's wife, Malcha, a daughter of Arran, who was the father of Malcha and the father of Jescha. 30 And Sara was barren and did not bear children. 31 And Tharra took Abram his son and Lot the son of Arran, his grand son, and Sara his daughter in law, the wife of his son Abram, and led them out of the country of the Chaldees to go to the land of Chanaan. But when they came to Charran he took up his abode there. 32 And in the land of Charran, all the days of Tharra were two hundred and five years. And Tharra died in Charran.