Genesis 10:1–11:9
1 Now these are the records of the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.
2 aThe sons of Japheth were bGomer and Magog and cMadai and dJavan and Tubal and eMeshech and Tiras.
3 The sons of Gomer were aAshkenaz and 1Riphath and bTogarmah.
4 The sons of Javan were Elishah and aTarshish, Kittim and 1Dodanim.
5 From these the coastlands of the nations 1were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.
6 aThe sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
7 The sons of Cush were aSeba and Havilah and Sabtah and bRaamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were bSheba and cDedan.
8 Now Cush 1became the father of Nimrod; he 2became a mighty one on the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.”
10 The beginning of his kingdom was 1aBabel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of bShinar.
11 From that land he went forth ainto Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,
12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
13 Mizraim 1became the father of aLudim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim
14 and aPathrusim and Casluhim (from which came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.
15 Canaan 1became the father of aSidon, his firstborn, and bHeth
16 and athe Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite
17 and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite
18 and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.
19 aThe territory of the Canaanite 1extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward bSodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.
21 Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the 1older brother of Japheth, children were born.
22 aThe sons of Shem were bElam and Asshur and cArpachshad and dLud and Aram.
23 The sons of Aram were aUz and Hul and Gether and Mash.
24 Arpachshad 1became the father of aShelah; and Shelah 1became the father of Eber.
25 aTwo sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was 1Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
26 Joktan 1became the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah
27 and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah
28 and 1Obal and Abimael and Sheba
29 and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
30 Now their 1settlement 2extended from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the hill country of the east.
31 These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, according to their nations.
32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations; and aout of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.
Universal Language, Babel, Confusion
1 Now the whole earth 1used the same language and 2the same words.
2 It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land aof Shinar and 1settled there.
3 They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used atar for mortar.
4 They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top awill reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves ba name, otherwise we cwill be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
5 aThe Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
6 The Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have 1athe same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be 2impossible for them.
7 “Come, alet Us go down and there bconfuse their 1language, so that they will not understand one another’s 1speech.”
8 So the Lord ascattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
9 Therefore its name was called 1aBabel, because there the Lord confused the 2language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.