NIRV ▾Genesis ▾11 ▾Genesis 111The whole world had only one language, and everyone spoke it.2They moved to the east and found a broad valley in Babylon. There they made their home.3They said to one another, “Come on! Let’s make bricks and bake them well.” They used bricks instead of stones. They used tar to hold the bricks together.4Then they said, “Come on! Let’s build a city for ourselves. Let’s build a tower that reaches to the sky. We’ll make a name for ourselves. Then we won’t be scattered over the whole earth.”5But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.6He said, “All these people are united and speak the same language. That is why they can do all this. Now they will be able to do anything they plan.7Come on! Let us go down and mix up their language. Then they will not be able to understand one another.”8So the Lord scattered them from there over the whole earth. And they stopped building the city.9There the Lord mixed up the language of the whole world. That’s why the city was called Babel. From there the Lord scattered them over the whole earth.10Here is the story of Shem’s family line. It was two years after the flood. When Shem was11After Arphaxad was born, Shem lived12When Arphaxad had lived13After Shelah was born, Arphaxad lived14When Shelah had lived15After Eber was born, Shelah lived16When Eber had lived17After Peleg was born, Eber lived18When Peleg had lived19After Reu was born, Peleg lived20When Reu had lived21After Serug was born, Reu lived22When Serug had lived23After Nahor was born, Serug lived24When Nahor had lived25After Terah was born, Nahor lived26After Terah was27Here is the story of Terah’s family line. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.28Haran died in the city of Ur in Babylonia, the land where he was born. Haran died while his father Terah was still alive.29years, he became the father of Terah.30years, he became the father of Eber.31Terah left Ur in Babylon. He took with him his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran. Terah also took his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram. All of them left together to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they made their home there.32years, he became the father of Serug.34years, he became the father of Peleg.35years, he became the father of Shelah.70years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.100years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.119years and had other sons and daughters.200years and had other sons and daughters.205years. And then he died in Harran.207years and had other sons and daughters.209years and had other sons and daughters.403years and had other sons and daughters.430years and had other sons and daughters.500years and had other sons and daughters.Genesis 10Genesis 12