THE FIRST BOOKE OF MOSES, called Genesis. Chapter 11

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CHAP. XI.

1 One language in the world. 3 The building of Babel. 5 The confusion of tongues. 10 The generations of Shem. 27 The generations of Terah the father of Abram. 31 Terah goeth from Vr to Haran.

¹And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speach.¹

²And it came to passe as they iourneyed from the East, that they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

³And they sayd one to another; Goe to, let vs make bricke, and burne them thorowly. And they had bricke for stone, and slime had they for morter.³

⁴And they said; Goe to, let vs build vs a city and a tower, whose top may reach vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest we be scattered abroad vpon the face of the whole earth.

⁵And the LORD came downe to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

⁶And the LORD said; Behold, the people is one, and they haue all one language: and this they begin to doe: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they haue imagined to doe.

⁷Goe to, let vs go downe, and there cōfound their language, that they may not vnderstand one anothers speech.

⁸So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence, vpon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the Citie.

⁹Therefore 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 vpon the face of all the earth.⁹

¹⁰¶ These are the generations of Shem. Shem was an hundred yeres old, and begate Arphaxad two yeeres after the Flood.¹⁰

¹¹And Shem liued, after he begate Arphaxad, fiue hundred yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

¹²And Arphaxad liued fiue and thirtie yeeres, and begate Salah.

¹³And Arphaxad liued, after he begate Salah, foure hundred and three yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

¹⁴And Salah liued thirtie yeeres, and begate Eber.

¹⁵And Salah liued, after hee begate Eber, foure hundred and three yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

¹⁶And Eber liued foure and thirty yeeres, and begate Peleg.¹⁶

¹⁷And Eber liued, after hee begate Peleg, foure hundred and thirtie yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

¹⁸And Peleg liued thirtie yeeres, and begate Reu.

¹⁹And Peleg liued, after hee begate Reu, two hundred and nine yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

²⁰And Reu liued two and thirtie yeeres, and begate Serug.²⁰

²¹And Reu liued, after hee begate Serug, two hundreth and seuen yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

²²And Serug liued thirtie yeeres, and begate Nahor.

²³And Serug liued, after he begate Nahor, two hundred yeeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.

²⁴And Nahor liued nine and twentie yeeres, and begate Terah.²⁴

²⁵And Nahor liued, after he begate Terah, an hundred & nineteene yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

²⁶And Terah liued seuenty yeeres, and begate Abram, Nahor, & Haran.²⁶

²⁷¶ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begate Abram, Nahor, and Haran: And Haran begate Lot.

²⁸And Haran died, before his father Terah in the land of his natiuity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

²⁹And Abram and Nahor tooke them wiues: the name of Abrams wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahors wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

³⁰But Sarai was barren; she had no childe.

³¹And Terah tooke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams wife, and they went foorth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to goe into the land of Canaan: and they came vnto Haran, and dwelt there.³¹

³²And the dayes of Terah, were two hundred and fiue yeres: and Terah died in Haran.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Genesis Chapter 11

¹ Wis.10.5. , Hebr. lippe. , Heb. words.
³ Heb. a man said to his neighbour. , Heb. burne them to a burning.
⁹ That is, Confusion.
¹⁰ 1. Chron. 1.17.
¹⁶ 1.Chron. 1.19. , Called Luke 3.35. Phalec.
²⁰ Luc.5.35 Saruch.
²⁴ Luc.3.34. Thara.
²⁶ Iosh.24.2 1.Chron.1. 26.
³¹ Nehem. 9.7. iudith. 5.7. acts.7. 4.

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