Genesis 11–25

Chapter 11

¹And the whole earth had one language, and the same words. ²And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there. ³And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. ⁴And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which may reach to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.

⁵And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built. ⁶And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing. ⁷Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. ⁸And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city. ⁹Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.

¹⁰These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood. ¹¹And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹²And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah. ¹³And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁴And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber. ¹⁵And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁶And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg. ¹⁷And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁸And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu. ¹⁹And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁰And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug. ²¹And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters. ²²And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. ²³And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁴And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah. ²⁵And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁶And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. ²⁸And Haran died before the face of his father Terah in the land of his nativity at Ur of the Chaldeans. ²⁹And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, a daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. ³⁰And Sarai was barren: she had no child. ³¹And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth together out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, and came as far as Haran, and dwelt there. ³²And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

Chapter 12

¹And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, to the land that I will shew thee. ²And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. ³And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

⁴And Abram departed as Jehovah had said to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. ⁵And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the souls that they had obtained in Haran, and they went out to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

⁶And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. ⁷And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared to him. ⁸And he removed thence towards the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel toward the west, and Ai toward the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah. ⁹And Abram moved onward, going on still toward the south.

¹⁰And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land. ¹¹And it came to pass when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a woman fair to look upon. ¹²And it will come to pass when the Egyptians see thee, that they will say, She is his wife; and they will slay me, and save thee alive. ¹³Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well with me on thy account, and my soul may live because of thee.

¹⁴And it came to pass when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. ¹⁵And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. ¹⁶And he treated Abram well on her account; and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and bondmen, and bondwomen, and she-asses, and camels. ¹⁷And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife. ¹⁸And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? ¹⁹Why didst thou say, She is my sister, so that I took her as my wife. And now, behold, there is thy wife: take her, and go away. ²⁰And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

Chapter 13

¹And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, towards the south. ²And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. ³And he went on his journeys from the south as far as Bethel; as far as the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai; ⁴to the place of the altar that he had made there at the first. And there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.

⁵And Lot also who went with Abram had flocks, and herds, and tents. ⁶And the land could not support them, that they might dwell together, for their property was great; and they could not dwell together. ⁷And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot’s cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land. ⁸And Abram said to Lot, I pray thee let there be no contention between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren. ⁹Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if to the left, then I will take the right; and if to the right, then I will take the left.

¹⁰And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar. ¹¹And Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot went toward the east. And they separated the one from the other: ¹²Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan; and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched tents as far as Sodom. ¹³And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.

¹⁴And Jehovah said to Abram, after that Lot had separated himself from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward; ¹⁵for all the land that thou seest will I give to thee, and to thy seed for ever. ¹⁶And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if any one can number the dust of the earth, thy seed also will be numbered. ¹⁷Arise, walk through the land according to the length of it and according to the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee. ¹⁸Then Abram moved his tents, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron. And he built there an altar to Jehovah.

Chapter 14

¹And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel the king of Shinar, Arioch the king of El-lasar, Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and Tidal the king of nations, ²that they made war with Bera the king of Sodom, and with Birsha the king of Gomorrah, Shinab the king of Admah, and Shemeber the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. ³All these were joined in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. ⁴Twelve years had they served Chedorlaomer; and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. ⁵And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-Kirjathaim, ⁶and the Horites on their mount Seir, to El-Paran, which is by the wilderness. ⁷And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwelt at Hazazon-Tamar. ⁸And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar, went out, and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim, ⁹with Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and Tidal the king of nations, and Amraphel the king of Shinar, and Arioch the king of Ellasar—four kings with the five. ¹⁰And the vale of Siddim was full of pits of asphalt. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there: and they that remained fled to the mountain. ¹¹And they took all the property of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and departed. ¹²And they took Lot and his property, Abram’s brother’s son, and departed. For he…