Genesis 10–11

10Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. ^2aThe sons of Japheth; ^bGomer, and ^cMagog, and Madai, and ^dJavan, and ^cTubal, and ^cMeshech, and Tiras. ³And the sons of Gomer; ^eAshkenaz, and Riphath, and ^bTogarmah. ⁴And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and ^fTarshish, ^gKittim, and ^||Dodanim. ⁵By these were ^gthe isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

^6hAnd the sons of Ham; ⁱCush, and Mizraim, and ⁱPhut, and Canaan. ⁷And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; ^fSheba, and ^fDedan. ⁸And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. ⁹He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. ¹⁰And the beginning of his kingdom was ^†Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of ^kShinar. ¹¹Out of that land ^||went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and ^||the city Rehoboth, and Calah, ¹²And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. ^13lAnd Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, ¹⁴And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came ^mPhilistim,) and ^mCaphtorim. ¹⁵And Canaan begat ^†Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, ¹⁶And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, ¹⁷And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, ¹⁸And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. ¹⁹And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto ^†Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. ²⁰These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

²¹Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. ²²The ⁿchildren of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and ^†Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. ^23oAnd the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. ²⁴And Arphaxad begat ^†pSalah; and Salah begat Eber. ²⁵And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was ^||Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. ²⁶And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, ²⁷And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, ²⁸And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, ²⁹And ^qOphir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan. ³⁰And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east. ³¹These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. ³²These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

11And the whole earth was of one ^†language, and of one ^†speech. ²And it came to pass, as they journeyed ^||from the east, that they found a plain in the land of ^aShinar; and they dwelt there. ³And ^†they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and ^†burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and ^bslime had they for morter. ⁴And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, ^cwhose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. ^5dAnd the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. ⁶And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. ⁷Go to, ^elet us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. ⁸So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence ^fupon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. ⁹Therefore is the name of it called ^||Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

^10gThese are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: ¹¹And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. ¹²And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, ^hand begat Salah: ¹³And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. ¹⁴And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: ¹⁵And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. ¹⁶And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat ^†Peleg: ¹⁷And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. ¹⁸And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: ¹⁹And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. ²⁰And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat ^†Serug: ²¹And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. ²²And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: ²³And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. ²⁴And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat ^†Terah: ²⁵And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. ²⁶And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. ²⁸And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. ²⁹And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was ⁱSarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, ^kMilcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. ³⁰But Sarai was barren; she had no child. ³¹And Terah ^ltook 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 with them ^mfrom Ur of the Chaldees, to go into ⁿthe land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. ³²And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.