jps - 11

jps@Genesis:11:1 @ And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

jps@Genesis:11:2 @ And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

jps@Genesis:11:3 @ And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

jps@Genesis:11:4 @ And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'

jps@Genesis:11:5 @ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

jps@Genesis:11:6 @ And the LORD said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.

jps@Genesis:11:7 @ Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'

jps@Genesis:11:8 @ So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.

jps@Genesis:11:9 @ Therefore was 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 upon the face of all the earth.

jps@Genesis:11:10 @ These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arpachshad two years after the flood.

jps@Genesis:11:11 @ And Shem lived after he begot Arpachshad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

jps@Genesis:11:12 @ And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begot Shelah.

jps@Genesis:11:13 @ And Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

jps@Genesis:11:14 @ And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

jps@Genesis:11:15 @ And Shelah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

jps@Genesis:11:16 @ And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg.

jps@Genesis:11:17 @ And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

jps@Genesis:11:18 @ And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

jps@Genesis:11:19 @ And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

jps@Genesis:11:20 @ And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug.

jps@Genesis:11:21 @ And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

jps@Genesis:11:22 @ And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

jps@Genesis:11:23 @ And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

jps@Genesis:11:24 @ And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.

jps@Genesis:11:25 @ And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

jps@Genesis:11:26 @ And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

jps@Genesis:11:27 @ Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.

jps@Genesis:11:28 @ And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

jps@Genesis:11:29 @ And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

jps@Genesis:11:30 @ And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

jps@Genesis:11:31 @ And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

jps@Genesis:11:32 @ And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

Genesis 11