Genesis 11 - The Passion Translation(TPT)

The Tower of Babel

1Now everyone at that time spoke a single language with one vocabulary.

2As people migrated eastward, they found a large plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

3They said to one another, “Come, let’s unite together and make bricks of clay and burn them until they become hard.” So, they piled up the bricks they made to serve as stones and collected tar for mortar.

4Then they said, “Come, let’s begin work to build ourselves a city with a lofty tower that rises into the heavens. We’ll make a name for ourselves, a monument to us, instead of being scattered all over the earth.”

5But when Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which mortals had started building,

6he said, “If they have begun this as one people sharing a common language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

7Come, let us go down and confuse their language and prevent them from understanding each other.”

8So Yahweh scattered them over the entire earth, and they stopped building their city.

9That is why the city was called Babel—because it was there that Yahweh confused the language of the whole world and from there the people were scattered over the face of the earth.

Genealogy of Shem

10These are the descendants of Shem.

Two years after the flood, at the age of one hundred, Shem had a son named Arphaxad.

11And after Arphaxad was born, Shem lived another five hundred years and had other sons and daughters.

12When Arphaxad was thirty-five, he had a son named Shelah.

13And after Shelah was born Arphaxad lived another four hundred and three years and had other sons and daughters.

14When Shelah was thirty, he had a son named Eber.

15And after Eber was born, Shelah lived another four hundred and three years and had other sons and daughters.

16When Eber was thirty-four, he had a son named Peleg.

17And after Peleg was born, Eber lived another four hundred and thirty years and had other sons and daughters.

18When Peleg was thirty, he had a son named Reu.

19And after Reu was born, Peleg lived another two hundred and nine years and had other sons and daughters.

20When Reu was thirty-two, he had a son named Serug.

21And after Serug was born, Reu lived another two hundred and seven years and had other sons and daughters.

22When Serug was thirty, he had a son named Nahor.

23And after Nahor was born, Serug lived another two hundred years and had other sons and daughters.

24When Nahor was twenty-nine, he had a son named Terah.

25And after Terah was born, Nahor lived another one hundred and nineteen years and had other sons and daughters.

26When Terah was seventy, he had sons named Abram, Nahor, and Haran. The Story of Terah

27Here are the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran was the father of Lot.

28Haran preceded his father, Terah, in death in the land of his birth, in the Chaldean city of Ur.

29The brothers, Abram and Nahor, were both married. Abram’s wife was Sarai. Nahor married the daughter of his deceased brother Haran; her name was Milcah, and her sister was Iscah.

30Now Sarai was barren and childless.

31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they all departed together from the Chaldean city of Ur to go into the land of Canaan. But when they journeyed as far as Haran, they settled there.

32Terah lived two hundred and five years and died in Haran.