PEV ▾Genesis ▾11 ▾Genesis 111You know, at first everyone talked the same language.2And as people moved from place to place in the east, they got to some flat country in Babylonia, and they stayed there. 3-4 Then they said to each other, “Look, we can make bricks here. So come on, let’s do that. We will bake them properly so that they are good strong bricks, and we will use them to build a city here. So come on, let’s build a big tall building in that city. It will be so tall that it will go right up into the sky.” You see, they had bricks and tar instead of stones and cement. And they said, “If we do that, everyone will think we are smart. Then we will not go and live all over the earth, but we will stay together right here.”3sons after he was5So the people started to build a city and a really tall building, and God came down to look at those things.6He said, “These people can all talk to each other in the same language, so they can do anything they want. If they keep on going this way, nothing will stop them from doing anything.7Come on, let’s go down to these people, and we will make them talk in different languages. Then they will not understand each other, and they will be all mixed up. They will not work things out with each other, so they will not keep on building this city.”8So God made all the people talk in different languages. None of them could understand anything the other people were saying. So they stopped building their big city.9They all left that city and went to live in lots of different places, all over the world. That’s how God got people to be in different tribes all over the world. And they called that city Babel . That means mixed up . They gave it that name because God mixed up their languages at that time.10This is the story about Shem’s family. Shem was11Shem lived for12Arfaxad was13Arfaxad lived for14Shelah was15Shelah lived for16Eber was17Eber lived for18Peleg was19Peleg lived for20Reyu was21Reyu lived for22Serug was23Serug lived for24Nahor was25Nahor lived for26Terah had27This is the story about Terah’s family. Terah had29years old when he had a son called Terah.30years old when he had a son called Eber.31Then Terah went away from Ur, in Chaldia country, and he took some of his family with him. They were his son Abram, and Abram’s wife Sarai, and his grand-son Lot. They all left Ur, and they started to go to the country called Canaan. But they stopped half-way, at a town called Haran, and they stayed there.32years old when he had a son called Serug.34years old when he had a son called Peleg.35years old when he had a son called Shelah.70years old. Their names were Abram, Nahor and Haran.100years old when he had a son called Arfaxad. That was119years after he had Terah, and he had more sons and daughters.200years after he had Nahor, and he had more sons and daughters.205years old. Then he died there in Haran.207years after he had Serug, and he had more sons and daughters.209years after he had Reyu, and he had more sons and daughters.403years after he had Shelah, and he had more sons and daughters.430years after he had Peleg, and he had more sons and daughters.500years after he had Arfaxad, and he had more sons and daughters.Genesis 10Genesis 12