Genesis 10–12

Chapter 10

These are the generations of the sons of Noe: Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and unto them sons were born after the flood.

²The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Thubal, and Mosoch, and Thiras.

³And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez and Riphath and Thogorma.

⁴And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.

⁵By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.

⁶And the Sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan.

⁷And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabatacha. The sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.

⁸Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.

⁹And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.

¹⁰And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar.

¹¹Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.

¹²Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this is the great city.

¹³And Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim and Laabim, Nephthuim.

¹⁴And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of whom came forth the Philistines, and the Capthorim.

¹⁵And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, the Hethite,

¹⁶And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite.

¹⁷The Hevite and Aracite: the Sinite,

¹⁸And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the Hamathite: and afterwards the families of the Chanaanites were spread abroad.

¹⁹And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim even to Lesa.

²⁰These are the children of Cham in their kindreds and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations.

²¹Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.

²²The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

²³The sons of Aram: Us, and Hull, and Gether; and Mes.

²⁴But Arphaxad begot Sale, of whom was born Heber.

²⁵And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days was the earth divided: and his brother’s name Jectan.

²⁶Which Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph, and Asarmoth, Jare,

²⁷And Aduram, and Uzal, and Decla,

²⁸And Ebal, and Abimael, Saba,

²⁹And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Jectan.

³⁰And their dwelling was from Messa as we go on as far as Sephar, a mountain in the east.

³¹These are the children of Sem according to their kindreds and tongues, and countries in their nations.

³²These are the families of Noe, according to their people and nations. By these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood.

Chapter 11

And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.

²And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.

³And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:

⁴And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.

⁵And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.

⁶And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.

⁷Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

⁸And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.

⁹And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.

¹⁰These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

¹¹And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹²And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale.

¹³And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁴Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber.

¹⁵And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three years: and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁶And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.

¹⁷And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four hundred and thirty years: and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁸Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

¹⁹And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁰And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Sarug.

²¹And Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

²²And Sarug lived thirty years, and begot Nachor.

²³And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁴And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.

²⁵And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁶And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Aran.

²⁷And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and Aran. And Aran begot Lot.

²⁸And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees.

²⁹And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor’s wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melcha and father of Jescha.

³⁰And Sarai was barren, and had no children.

³¹And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.

³²And the days of Thare were two hundred and five years, and he died in Haran.

Chapter 12

And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father’s house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

²And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

³I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

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

⁵And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,

⁶Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.

⁷And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

⁸And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

⁹And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.

¹⁰And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.

¹¹And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:

¹²And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.

¹³Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.

¹⁴And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.

¹⁵And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.

¹⁶And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and camels.

¹⁷But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram’s wife.

¹⁸And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

¹⁹For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now therefore there is thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

²⁰And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led him away and his wife, and all that he had.