Bereshet (Genesis) - Chapter 11

11:1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 11:2 It happened, as they travelled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there. 11:3 They said one to another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. 11:4 They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

11:5 Mar-Yah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. 11:6 Mar-Yah said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. 11:7 Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand what each other is speaking." 11:8 Thus Mar-Yah scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city. 11:9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because it was there that Mar-Yah added to the language of all the earth. From there, Mar-Yah scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

11:10 This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood. 11:11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.

11:12 Arpachshad lived one-hundred and thirty-five years and became the father of Cainan. 11:13 Arpachshad lived four-hundred years after he became the father of Cainan, and became the father of sons and daughters. {And Cainan lived one-hundred and thirty years and became the father of Shelah; and Cainan lived three hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Shelah,and fathered sons and daughters.}

11:14 Shelah lived one-hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Eber: 11:15 and Shelah lived three-hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.

11:16 Eber lived one-hundred and thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg. 11:17 Eber lived two-hundred and seventy years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.

11:18 Peleg lived one-hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Reu. 11:19 Peleg lived two-hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.

11:20 Reu lived one-hundred and thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug. 11:21 Reu lived two-hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.

11:22 Serug lived one-hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Nahor. 11:23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.

11:24 Nahor lived one-hundred and seventy years, and became the father of Terah. 11:25 Nahor lived one-hundred and twenty years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.

11:26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

11:27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. 11:28 Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur-Kasdim. 11:29 Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of the wife of Abram was Sarai, and the name of the wife of Nahor, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah. 11:30 Sarai was barren. She had no child. 11:31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, the son of his son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur-Kasdim, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. 11:32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.