Genesis 11:7–32

⁷Come, ⁱlet Us go down and there ^jconfuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” ⁸So ^kthe Lord scattered them abroad from there ^lover the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. ⁹Therefore its name is called ³Babel, ^mbecause there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

Shem’s Descendants

¹⁰ⁿThis is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood. ¹¹After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹²Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, ^oand begot Salah. ¹³After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁴Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber. ¹⁵After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

^16pEber lived thirty-four years, and begot ^qPeleg. ¹⁷After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁸Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu. ¹⁹After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁰Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot ^rSerug. ²¹After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

²²Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. ²³After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁴Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot ^sTerah. ²⁵After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁶Now Terah lived seventy years, and ^tbegot ⁴Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Terah’s Descendants

²⁷This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot ^uAbram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. ²⁸And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. ²⁹Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was ^vSarai, ⁵and the name of Nahor’s wife, ^wMilcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. ³⁰But ^xSarai was barren; she had no child.

³¹And Terah ^ytook his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from ^zUr of the Chaldeans to go to ^athe land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. ³²So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.