{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/genesis/11","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T08:57:51.633Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Genesis","bookSlug":"genesis","chapter":11,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":10,"nextChapter":12,"totalChapters":50,"totalVerses":32},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelled there."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from there did the LORD scatter them abroad on the face of all the earth."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"But Sarai was barren; she had no child."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"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 to Haran, and dwelled there."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran."}],"citation":{"inline":"Genesis 11 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Genesis 11](https://primebible.com/akjv/genesis/11)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/genesis/11 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}