NIVUK ▾Genesis ▾11 ▾Genesis 111Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.2As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.3They said to each other, ‘Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.’ They used brick instead of stone, and bitumen for mortar.4Then they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.’5But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.6The Lord said, ‘If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.7Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.’8So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.9That is why it was called Babel – because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.10This is the account of Shem’s family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was11And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived12When Arphaxad had lived13And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived14When Shelah had lived15And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived16When Eber had lived17And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived18When Peleg had lived19And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived20When Reu had lived21And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived22When Serug had lived23And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived24When Nahor had lived25And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived26After Terah had lived27This is the account of Terah’s family line. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.28While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.29years, he became the father of Terah.30years, he became the father of Eber.31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.32years, he became the father of Serug.34years, he became the father of Peleg.35years, he became the father of Shelah.70years, 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 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