Genesis 11 Cross References - BBE

¹ And all the earth had one language and one tongue. ² And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place. ³ And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth. ⁴ And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth. ⁵ And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building. ⁶ And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs. ⁷ Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another. ⁸ So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town. ⁹ So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth. ¹⁰ These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters; ¹¹ And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters: ¹² And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah: ¹³ And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters: ¹⁴ And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber: ¹⁵ And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters: ¹⁶ And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg: ¹⁷ And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters: ¹⁸ And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu: ¹⁹ And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters: ²⁰ And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug: ²¹ And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters: ²² And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor: ²³ And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters: ²⁴ And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah: ²⁵ And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters: ²⁶ And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. ²⁷ These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. ²⁸ And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees. ²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. ³⁰ And Sarai had no child. ³¹ And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time. ³² And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.

¹⁸ In that day there will be five towns in the land of Egypt using the language of Canaan, and making oaths to the Lord of armies; and one of them will be named, The Town of the Sun.

⁹ For then I will give the people a clean language, so that they may all make prayer to the Lord and be his servants with one mind.

⁶ And when this sound came to their ears, they all came together, and were greatly surprised because every man was hearing the words of the disciples in his special language.

¹⁰ And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

⁹ So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

¹¹ So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.

¹ Now in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

¹¹ And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.

² And the Lord gave into his hands Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he took them away into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he put the vessels into the store-house of his god.

¹¹ And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.

⁴ And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

⁷ Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.

¹⁰ Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

¹⁴ And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

³ And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.

⁷ Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves. ⁸ But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God. ⁹ Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words. ¹⁰ And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems. ¹¹ Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less. ¹² So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems. ¹³ And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you. ¹⁴ And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before? ¹⁵ Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants? ¹⁶ They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong. ¹⁷ But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord. ¹⁸ Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.

³¹ And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.

⁵ They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

¹¹ If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

¹ I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.

⁵ And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

¹⁰ The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars.

⁶ They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart! ⁷ So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.

³ A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.

¹⁴ Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

¹³ But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

²⁴ And let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;

¹³ How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

¹ Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

⁴ There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.

⁸ So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town. ⁹ So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

²⁸ Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

²⁷ And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.

¹ Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven;

¹³ And David got great honour for himself, when he came back, by the destruction of Edom in the valley of Salt, to the number of eighteen thousand men.

¹¹ The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands. ¹² But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts. ¹³ This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. Selah.

⁹ For see! your haters, O Lord, will be put to death; all the workers of evil will be put to flight;

⁷ The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.

¹¹ And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth:

²² It is you, O King, who have become great and strong: for your power is increased and stretching up to heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth.

³⁰ The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?

⁵¹ With his arm he has done acts of power; he has put to flight those who have pride in their hearts.

⁴⁴ How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?

²¹ I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.

⁸ And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

¹¹ And by the third day let them be ready: for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of all the people.

¹⁸ And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking.

²⁰ Then the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and the Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

⁴ The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.

¹³ The Lord is looking down from heaven; he sees all the sons of men; ¹⁴ From his house he keeps watch on all who are living on the earth;

²³ Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance? ²⁴ In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.

¹³ And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.

¹³ And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

²² And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

⁵ And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

²¹ And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

¹⁹ These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.

¹ And all the earth had one language and one tongue.

¹⁴ Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.

²⁷ And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

¹ Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish? ² The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying, ³ Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us. ⁴ Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.

⁹ Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

²⁶ And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

⁵ From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.

²⁰ All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.

³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.

⁵ And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

²³ They were not conscious that the sense of their words was clear to Joseph, for he had been talking to them through one who had knowledge of their language.

⁴⁹ The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you;

¹² Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes. ¹³ He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.

²⁰ He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

⁴ Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.

¹⁰ The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.

⁹ Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

⁸ And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.

¹⁵ See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.

⁴ And they were all full of the Holy Spirit, and were talking in different languages, as the Spirit gave them power. ⁵ Now there were living at Jerusalem, Jews, God-fearing men, from every nation under heaven. ⁶ And when this sound came to their ears, they all came together, and were greatly surprised because every man was hearing the words of the disciples in his special language. ⁷ And they were full of wonder and said, Are not all these men Galilaeans? ⁸ And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth? ⁹ Men of Parthia, Media, and Elam, and those living in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, ¹⁰ In Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and those who have come from Rome, Jews by birth and others who have become Jews, ¹¹ Men of Crete and Arabia, to all of us they are talking in our different languages, of the great works of God.

² For he who makes use of tongues is not talking to men but to God; because no one has the sense of what he is saying; but in the Spirit he is talking of secret things. ³ But the word of the prophet gives men knowledge and comfort and strength. ⁴ He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church. ⁵ Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church. ⁶ But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching? ⁷ Even things without life, having a voice, such as a music-pipe or other instrument, if they do not give out different sounds, who may be certain what is being played? ⁸ For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight? ⁹ So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air. ¹⁰ There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense. ¹¹ But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man from a strange country to him who is talking, and he will be the same to me.

²³ If, then, the church has come together, and all are using tongues, and there come in men without knowledge or faith, will they not say that you are unbalanced?

²⁵ And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.

⁷ A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.

⁸ When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.

³¹ These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem. ³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.

¹ The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw. ² Put up a flag on a clear mountain-top, make a loud outcry to them, give directions with the hand, so that they may go into the doors of the great ones. ³ I have given orders to my holy ones, I have sent out my men of war, those of mine who take pride in their power, to give effect to my wrath. ⁴ The noise of great numbers in the mountains, like the noise of a strong people! The noise of the kingdoms of the nations meeting together! The Lord of armies is numbering his forces for war. ⁵ They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land. ⁶ Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High. ⁷ For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water; ⁸ Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames. ⁹ See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction. ¹⁰ For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light. ¹¹ And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel. ¹² I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir. ¹³ For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion. ¹⁴ And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

¹ The word which the Lord said about Babylon, about the land of the Chaldaeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. ² Give it out among the nations, make it public, and let the flag be lifted up; give the word and keep nothing back; say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is broken, her images are put to shame, her gods are broken. ³ For out of the north a nation is coming up against her, which will make her land waste and unpeopled: they are in flight, man and beast are gone. ⁴ In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God. ⁵ They will be questioning about the way to Zion, with their faces turned in its direction, saying, Come, and be united to the Lord in an eternal agreement which will be kept in mind for ever. ⁶ My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place. ⁷ They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers. ⁸ Go in flight out of Babylon, go out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and be like he-goats before the flocks. ⁹ For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark. ¹⁰ And the wealth of Chaldaea will come into the hands of her attackers: all those who take her wealth will have enough, says the Lord. ¹¹ Because you are glad, because you are lifted up with pride, you wasters of my heritage, because you are playing like a young cow put out to grass, and you make a noise like strong horses; ¹² Your mother will be put to shame; she who gave you birth will be looked down on: see, she will be the last of the nations, a waste place, a dry and unwatered land. ¹³ Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments. ¹⁴ Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord. ¹⁵ Give a loud cry against her on every side; she has given herself up, her supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord; give her payment; as she has done, so do to her. ¹⁶ Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land. ¹⁷ Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon. ¹⁸ So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on the king of Babylon and on his land, as I have given punishment to the king of Assyria. ¹⁹ And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. ²⁰ In those days and in that time, says the Lord, when the evil-doing of Israel is looked for, there will be nothing; and in Judah no sins will be seen: for I will have forgiveness for those whom I will keep safe. ²¹ Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the people of Pekod; put them to death and send destruction after them, says the Lord, and do everything I have given you orders to do. ²² There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction. ²³ How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations! ²⁴ I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord. ²⁵ From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans. ²⁶ Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen. ²⁷ Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment. ²⁸ The voice of those who are in flight, who have got away safe from the land of Babylon, to give news in Zion of punishment from the Lord our God, even payment for his Temple. ²⁹ Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel. ³⁰ For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord. ³¹ See, I am against you, O pride, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, for your day has come, the time when I will send punishment on you. ³² And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him. ³³ This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go. ³⁴ Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon. ³⁵ A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men. ³⁶ A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is on her men of war, and they will be broken. ³⁷ A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers. ³⁸ A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods. ³⁹ For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation. ⁴⁰ As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there. ⁴¹ See, a people is coming from the north; a great nation and a number of kings will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth. ⁴² Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon. ⁴³ The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth. ⁴⁴ See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make them go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will keep his place before me? ⁴⁵ So give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Babylon, and to his purposes designed against the land of the Chaldaeans; Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them. ⁴⁶ At the cry, Babylon is taken! the earth is shaking, and the cry comes to the ears of the nations.

²¹ And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition. ²² These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.

²⁷ These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

¹⁷ The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram and Uz and Hul and Gether and Meshech. ¹⁸ And Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber. ¹⁹ And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days a division was made of the earth; and his brother's name was Joktan. ²⁰ And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah ²¹ And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah ²² And Ebal and Abimael and Sheba ²³ And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. ²⁴ Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah, ²⁵ Eber, Peleg, Reu, ²⁶ Serug, Nahor, Terah, ²⁷ Abram that is Abraham.

³⁴ The son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, ³⁵ The son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, ³⁶ The son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

²⁸ And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

⁴ And after the birth of Seth, Adam went on living for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters: ⁵ And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end. ⁶ And Seth was a hundred and five years old when he became the father of Enosh: ⁷ And he went on living after the birth of Enosh for eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters: ⁸ And all the years of Seth's life were nine hundred and twelve: and he came to his end. ⁹ And Enosh was ninety years old when he became the father of Kenan: ¹⁰ And after the birth of Kenan, Enosh went on living for eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daughters: ¹¹ And all the years of Enosh were nine hundred and five: and he came to his end. ¹² And Kenan was seventy years old when he became the father of Mahalalel: ¹³ And after the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan went on living for eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daughters: ¹⁴ And all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and ten; and he came to his end. ¹⁵ And Mahalalel was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Jared: ¹⁶ And after the birth of Jared, Mahalalel went on living for eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters: ¹⁷ And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he came to his end. ¹⁸ And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of Enoch: ¹⁹ And Jared went on living after the birth of Enoch for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters: ²⁰ And all the years of Jared's life were nine hundred and sixty-two: and he came to his end. ²¹ And Enoch was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Methuselah: ²² And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters: ²³ And all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and sixty-five: ²⁴ And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him. ²⁵ And Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old when he became the father of Lamech: ²⁶ And after the birth of Lamech, Methuselah went on living for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters: ²⁷ And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he came to his end. ²⁸ And Lamech was a hundred and eighty-two years old when he had a son: ²⁹ And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God. ³⁰ And after the birth of Noah, Lamech went on living for five hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters: ³¹ And all the years of Lamech's life were seven hundred and seventy-seven: and he came to his end. ³² And when Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

⁷ And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.

³ See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward. ⁴ Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young.

³ Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table. ⁴ See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.

¹² Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;

³⁶ The son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

²¹ And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.

²⁴ But ships will come from the direction of Kittim, troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their fate will be destruction.

¹⁹ And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days a division was made of the earth; and his brother's name was Joktan.

³⁵ The son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,

² And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.

³⁴ The son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

⁴ So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran. ⁵ And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

²⁰ After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children; ²¹ Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram, ²² And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel. ²³ Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother. ²⁴ And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.

⁴ Then Jacob said to the herdmen, My brothers, where do you come from? And they said, From Haran. ⁵ And he said to them, Have you any knowledge of Laban, the son of Nahor? And they said, We have.

³¹ And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

⁴ So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.

¹ And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South. ² Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold. ³ And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai; ⁴ To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord. ⁵ And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents; ⁶ So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together. ⁷ And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land. ⁸ Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers. ⁹ Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left. ¹⁰ And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar. ¹¹ So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.

¹² And in addition they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who was living in Sodom, and all his goods.

¹ And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth. ² And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street. ³ But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took. ⁴ But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town; ⁵ And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them. ⁶ And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door after him. ⁷ And he said, My brothers, do not this evil. ⁸ See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof. ⁹ And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in. ¹⁰ But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again. ¹¹ But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door. ¹² Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place; ¹³ For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town. ¹⁴ And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously. ¹⁵ And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town. ¹⁶ But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town. ¹⁷ And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction. ¹⁸ And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord; ¹⁹ See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death; ²⁰ This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there is it not a little one? so that my life may be safe. ²¹ And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town. ²² Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar. ²³ The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar. ²⁴ Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. ²⁵ And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land. ²⁶ But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt. ²⁷ And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord: ²⁸ And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven. ²⁹ So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.

⁷ And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers

⁷ And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.

⁷ You are the Lord, the God, who took Abram and made him yours, guiding him from Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham;

² And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran, ³ And said to him, Go out of your land, and away from your family, and come into the land to which I will be your guide. ⁴ Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:

¹⁵ And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

¹² And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:

²⁰ After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;

¹⁵ And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm.

² And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me. ³ And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.

¹ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar. ² And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

¹¹ Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth. ¹² And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?

¹ And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken. ² And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.

²¹ Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.

³¹ Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.

¹ Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living. ² But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?

² Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.

² And he had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah: and Peninnah was the mother of children, but Hannah had no children.

⁹ He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

⁷ And they were without children, because Elisabeth had never given birth, and they were at that time very old.

³⁶ Even now Elisabeth, who is of your family, is to be a mother, though she is old: and this is the sixth month with her who was without children.

¹⁹ Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.

²⁶ And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. ²⁷ These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. ²⁸ And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.

³² And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.

¹⁰ And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.

⁴³ So now, my son, do what I say: go quickly to Haran, to my brother Laban;

² And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods. ³ And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.

⁸ By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.