Shared Word Translation
Genesis 11
The Tower of Babel
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the children of humankind had built. And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. Nothing that they plan to do will now be withheld from them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
The Generations of Shem
These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad five hundred years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
When Arpachshad had lived thirty-five years, he fathered Shelah. Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah four hundred three years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
When Shelah had lived thirty years, he fathered Eber. Shelah lived after he fathered Eber four hundred three years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he fathered Peleg. Eber lived after he fathered Peleg four hundred thirty years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
When Peleg had lived thirty years, he fathered Reu. Peleg lived after he fathered Reu two hundred nine years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
When Reu had lived thirty-two years, he fathered Serug. Reu lived after he fathered Serug two hundred seven years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
When Serug had lived thirty years, he fathered Nahor. Serug lived after he fathered Nahor two hundred years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he fathered Terah. Nahor lived after he fathered Terah one hundred nineteen years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
When Terah had lived seventy years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
The Family of Terah
These are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. 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 Iscah. Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there. The days of Terah were two hundred five years, and Terah died in Haran.