Genesis 11

¹ And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all. ² And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they dwelt there. ³ And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen. ⁴ And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth. ⁵ And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built. ⁶ And the Lord said, Behold, there is one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do. ⁷ Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour. ⁸ And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower. ⁹ On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.

¹⁰ And these are the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begat Arphaxad, the second year after the flood. ¹¹ And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters, and died. ¹² And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begat Cainan. ¹³ And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, ^[1]four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begat Sala; and Cainan lived after he had begotten Sala, three hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters, and died. ¹⁴ And Sala lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat Heber. ¹⁵ And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters, and died. ¹⁶ And Heber lived a hundred and thirty-four years, and begat Phalec. ¹⁷ And Heber lived after he had begotten Phalec ^[2]three hundred and seventy years, and begat sons and daughters, and died. ¹⁸ And Phalec lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat Ragau. ¹⁹ And Phalec lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters, and died. ²⁰ And Ragau lived a hundred thirty and two years, and begat Seruch. ²¹ And Ragau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters, and died. ²² And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat Nachor. ²³ And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters, and died. ²⁴ And Nachor lived ^[3]seventy-nine years, and begat Tharrha. ²⁵ And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, a hundred and ^[4]twenty-nine years, and begat sons and daughters, and he died. ²⁶ And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begat Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.

²⁷ And these are the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begat Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begat Lot. ²⁸ And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees. ²⁹ And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, ^[5]the name of the wife of Abram was Sara, and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of Arrhan, and he was the father of Malcha, the father of Jescha. ³⁰ And Sara was barren, and did not bear children. ³¹ And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan, and they came as far as Charran, and he dwelt there. ³² And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charran were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charran.

Notes

11:13 four hundred and thirty years: Valpy four hundred years ↩
11:17 three hundred and seventy years: Bodleian Genesis two hundred and seventy years ↩
11:24 seventy-nine years: Valpy a hundred and seventy-nine years ↩
11:25 twenty-nine: Valpy twenty-five ↩
11:29 the name of the wife of Abram was Sara: There seems to be no note of the date of Abram’s marriage with Sara. ↩