(BA) Genesis 11

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1 Now all the earth was united in language and vocabulary. 2 And as they journeyed eastward, they came upon a valley in the land of Shinar, and settled there. 3 And they said each to his companion, Come, let us bake bricks, and burn them well. And they had bricks for stone, and tar for mortar.

4 And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, with its top in the sky, and we will make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered across the face of the whole earth.

5 And Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the human beings had built.

6 And Yahweh said, Look, they are all one people with one language. If this is what they are beginning to do, then nothing will be withheld from them of all that they decide to do. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that one cannot understand the speech of his companion.

8 And Yahweh dispersed them from there across the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, and from there Yahweh dispersed them across the face of the whole earth.

10 These are the toledot of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old when he begot Arpachshad two years after the Deluge. 11 And Shem lived after his begetting Arpachshad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

12 And Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah. 13 And Arpachshad lived after his begetting Shelah four hundred three years, and begot sons and daughters.

14 And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber. 15 And Shelah lived after his begetting Eber four hundred three years, and begot sons and daughters.

16 And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg. 17 And Eber lived after his begetting Peleg four hundred thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu. 19 And Peleg lived after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and he begot sons and daughters.

20 And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug. 21 And Reu lived after his begetting Serug two hundred seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. 23 And Serug lived after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

24 And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah. 25 And Nahor lived after his begetting Terah one hundred nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 And these are the toledot of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran begot Lot. 28 And Haran died before Terah his father in his native land, in Ur Kasdim. 29 And Abram and Nahor took themselves wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and father of Iscah. 30 And Sarai was barren; she had no children. 31 And Terah took Abram his son and Lot son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and went out with them from Ur Kasdim to go to the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and stayed there. 32 And all the days of Terah were two hundred five years, and Terah died in Haran.

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