BERESHITH (GENESIS) 11

Gen 11:1 And all the earth had one language and one speech.
Gen 11:2 And it came to be, as they set out from the east, that they found a
plain in the land of Shin‛ar, and they dwelt there.
Gen 11:3 And they said to each other, “Come, let us make bricks and bake
them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for
mortar.
Gen 11:4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower
whose top is in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves, lest we be
scattered over all the face of the earth.”
Gen 11:5 Then יהוה came down to see the city and the tower which the sons
of men had built.
Gen 11:6 And יהוה said, “Look, they are one people and they all have one
language, and this is what they begin to do! And now, they are not going to be
withheld from doing whatever they plan to do.
Gen 11:7 “Come, let Us go there and confuse their language, so that they do
not understand one another’s speech.”
Gen 11:8 And יהוה scattered them from there, over the face of all the earth,
and they left off building the city.
Gen 11:9 That is why its name was called Baḇel, because there יהוה
confused the language of all the earth, and from there יהוה scattered them over
the face of all the earth.
Gen 11:10 This is the genealogy of Shĕm: Shĕm was a hundred years old
and brought forth Arpaḵshaḏ, two years after the flood.
Gen 11:11 And after he brought forth Arpaḵshaḏ, Shĕm lived five hundred
years, and brought forth sons and daughters.
Gen 11:12 And Arpaḵshaḏ lived thirty-five years, and brought forth Shelaḥ.
Gen 11:13 And after he brought forth Shelaḥ, Arpaḵshaḏ lived four hundred
and three years, and brought forth sons and daughters.
Gen 11:14 And Shelaḥ lived thirty years, and brought forth Ĕḇer.
Gen 11:15 And after he brought forth Ĕḇer, Shelaḥ lived four hundred and
three years, and brought forth sons and daughters.
Gen 11:16 And Ĕḇer lived thirty-four years, and brought forth Peleḡ.
Gen 11:17 And after he brought forth Peleḡ, Ĕḇer lived four hundred and
thirty years, and brought forth sons and daughters.
Gen 11:18 And Peleḡ lived thirty years, and brought forth Re‛u.
Gen 11:19 And after he brought forth Re‛u, Peleḡ lived two hundred and
nine years, and brought forth sons and daughters.
Gen 11:20 And Re‛u lived thirty-two years, and brought forth Seruḡ.
Gen 11:21 And after he brought forth Seruḡ, Re‛u lived two hundred and
seven years, and brought forth sons and daughters.
Gen 11:22 And Seruḡ lived thirty years, and brought forth Naḥor.
Gen 11:23 And after he brought forth Naḥor, Seruḡ lived two hundred years,
and brought forth sons and daughters.
Gen 11:24 And Naḥor lived twenty-nine years, and brought forth Teraḥ.
Gen 11:25 And after he brought forth Teraḥ, Naḥor lived one hundred and
nineteen years, and brought forth sons and daughters.
Gen 11:26 And Teraḥ lived seventy years, and brought forth Aḇram, Naḥor,
and Haran.
Gen 11:27 And this is the genealogy of Teraḥ: Teraḥ brought forth Aḇram,
Naḥor, and Haran. And Haran brought forth Lot.
Gen 11:28 And Haran died before his father Teraḥ in the land of his birth, in
Ur of the Chaldeans.
Gen 11:29 And Aḇram and Naḥor took wives: the name of Aḇram’s wife
was Sarai, and the name of Naḥor’s wife, Milkah, the daughter of Haran the
father of Milkah and the father of Yiskah.
Gen 11:30 And Sarai was barren, she had no child.
Gen 11:31 And Teraḥ took his son Aḇram and his grandson Lot, son of
Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Aḇram’s wife, and they went
out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Kena‛an. And
they came to Ḥaran and dwelt there.
Gen 11:32 And the days of Teraḥ came to be two hundred and five years,
and Teraḥ died in Ḥaran.