Genesis 11

1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.Cross-references: Isa 19:18 · Zeph 3:9 · Acts 2:6

2As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.Cross-references: Gen 10:10 · Gen 11:9 · Gen 13:11 · Gen 14:1 · Isa 11:11 · Dan 1:2 · +1 more

3They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.Cross-references: Gen 11:4 · Gen 11:7 · Gen 14:10 · Ex 1:14 · Ex 2:3 · Ex 5:7 · +13 more

4They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”Cross-references: Gen 6:4 · Gen 11:8 · Deut 1:28 · Deut 4:27 · Deut 9:1 · 2Sam 8:13 · +8 more

5Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.Cross-references: Gen 18:21 · Ex 3:8 · Ex 19:11 · Ex 19:18 · Ex 19:20 · Ps 11:4 · +4 more

6Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.Cross-references: Gen 3:22 · Gen 6:5 · Gen 8:21 · Gen 9:19 · Gen 11:1 · Judg 10:14 · +5 more

7Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”Cross-references: Gen 1:26 · Gen 3:22 · Gen 10:5 · Gen 10:20 · Gen 10:32 · Gen 11:5 · +12 more

8So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.Cross-references: Gen 10:25 · Gen 10:32 · Gen 11:4 · Gen 11:9 · Gen 49:7 · Deut 32:8 · +1 more

9Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.Cross-references: Gen 10:5 · Gen 10:10 · Gen 10:20 · Gen 10:25 · Gen 10:31 · Isa 13:1 · +3 more

10This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.Cross-references: Gen 10:21 · Gen 11:27 · 1Chr 1:17 · Luke 3:34

11Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.Cross-references: Gen 1:28 · Gen 5:4 · Gen 9:7 · Ps 127:3 · Ps 128:3 · Ps 144:12

12Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.Cross-references: Luke 3:36

13Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

14Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.

15Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

16Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.Cross-references: Gen 10:21 · Gen 10:25 · Num 24:24 · 1Chr 1:19 · Luke 3:35

17Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

18Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.Cross-references: Luke 3:35

19Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

20Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.Cross-references: Luke 3:35

21Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

22Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.Cross-references: Josh 24:2

23Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

24Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.Cross-references: Josh 24:2 · Luke 3:34

25Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

26Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.Cross-references: Gen 12:4 · Gen 22:20 · Gen 29:4 · Josh 24:2 · 1Chr 1:26

27Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.Cross-references: Gen 11:31 · Gen 12:4 · Gen 13:1 · Gen 14:12 · Gen 19:1 · 2Pet 2:7

28Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.Cross-references: Gen 11:31 · Gen 15:7 · Neh 9:7 · Acts 7:2

29Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.Cross-references: Gen 17:15 · Gen 20:12 · Gen 22:20 · Gen 24:15

30Sarai was barren. She had no child.Cross-references: Gen 15:2 · Gen 16:1 · Gen 18:11 · Gen 21:1 · Gen 25:21 · Gen 29:31 · +6 more

31Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.Cross-references: Gen 10:19 · Gen 11:26 · Gen 11:32 · Gen 12:4 · Gen 15:7 · Gen 24:10 · +7 more

32The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.