# Genesis 11

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/11

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. The whole earth had one language and one speech.
2. As they journeyed eastward, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3. They said to each other, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” Brick was their stone, and bitumen their mortar.
4. They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
5. Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that the children of man built.
6. Yahweh said, "Look, they are one people, and all of them share one language—this is what they begin to do. Now nothing they devise to do will be restrained from them."
7. Come, let's go down and mix up their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech.
8. Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
9. Therefore it was named Babel, because there Yahweh confounded the speech of all the earth. From there Yahweh dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
10. These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old and fathered Arphaxad two years after the flood.
11. Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arphaxad, and fathered sons and daughters.
12. Arphaxad lived thirty-five years and fathered Shelah.
13. Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Shelah, and fathered sons and daughters.
14. Shelah lived thirty years and fathered Eber.
15. Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Eber, and fathered sons and daughters.
16. Eber lived thirty-four years and fathered Peleg.
17. Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after fathering Peleg, and fathered sons and daughters.
18. Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Reu.
19. Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he fathered Reu, and fathered sons and daughters.
20. Reu lived thirty-two years and fathered Serug.
21. Reu lived two hundred seven years after he fathered Serug, and fathered sons and daughters.
22. Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nahor.
23. Serug lived two hundred years after he fathered Nahor, and fathered sons and daughters.
24. Nahor lived twenty-nine years and fathered Terah.
25. Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he fathered Terah, and fathered sons and daughters.
26. Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27. These are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.
28. Haran died before his father Terah in the land where he was born, in Ur among the Chaldeans.
29. Abram and Nahor took wives; Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.
30. Sarai was barren and had no child.
31. Terah took his son Abram, Lot the son of his son Haran, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of his son Abram, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan, came to Haran, and settled there.
32. Terah's days were two hundred five years, and he died in Haran.

## Nearby chapters

[Genesis 10](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/10.md)
[Genesis 12](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/12.md)

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