Old Testament · Law

Genesis chapter 11

Now the whole earth had one and the same .As people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of and settled there.They said to each other, “Come on, let’s make and fire them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and instead of mortar.Then they said, “Come on, let’s build ourselves a city, with a that reaches the sky, and let’s make a for ourselves — otherwise we’ll be across the face of the whole earth.”But to see the city and the tower that the humans had built.Yahweh said, “Look — they are one people with one language, and this is just the beginning of what they’ll do. Nothing they plan to do will be out of their reach.”“, let’s go down and their language there, so they won’t understand each other’s speech.”So Yahweh them from there across the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.That’s why it was called — because there Yahweh the language of the whole earth, and from there Yahweh scattered them across the face of the whole earth.This is ’s . When Shem was a hundred years old, he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood.After fathering Arpachshad, Shem lived five hundred years and had other sons and daughters.When Arpachshad was thirty-five years old, he fathered Shelah.After fathering Shelah, Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years and had other sons and daughters.When Shelah was thirty years old, he fathered Eber.After fathering Eber, Shelah lived four hundred and three years and had other sons and daughters.When was thirty-four years old, he fathered .After fathering Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years and had other sons and daughters.When Peleg was thirty years old, he fathered Reu.After fathering Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years and had other sons and daughters.When Reu was thirty-two years old, he fathered Serug.After fathering Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years and had other sons and daughters.When Serug was thirty years old, he fathered Nahor.After fathering Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years and had other sons and daughters.When Nahor was twenty-nine years old, he fathered Terah.After fathering Terah, Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years and had other sons and daughters.When was seventy years old, he fathered , Nahor, and Haran.This is Terah’s . Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran fathered .Haran died during his father Terah’s lifetime, in the land of his birth, in .Abram and Nahor both took wives. Abram’s wife was named , and Nahor’s wife was named — she was Haran’s daughter, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.Now Sarai was — she had no child.Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram’s wife), and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of . But when they got to Haran, they settled there.Terah lived two hundred and five years, and he died in Haran.