Chapter
Genesis 11
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Book 1
Verses 32
| Reference | Verse |
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| Genesis 11:1 | And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. |
| Genesis 11:2 | And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. |
| Genesis 11:3 | And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. |
| Genesis 11:4 | And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. |
| Genesis 11:5 | And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. |
| Genesis 11:6 | And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. |
| Genesis 11:7 | Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. |
| Genesis 11:8 | So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. |
| Genesis 11:9 | Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. |
| Genesis 11:10 | These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: |
| Genesis 11:11 | And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 11:12 | And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: |
| Genesis 11:13 | And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 11:14 | And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: |
| Genesis 11:15 | And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 11:16 | And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: |
| Genesis 11:17 | And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 11:18 | And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: |
| Genesis 11:19 | And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| Genesis 11:20 | And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: |
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