{"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/dbt/genesis/11","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T07:32:29.272Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","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 had one language, and the same words."},{"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 dwelt there."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which may reach to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And Haran died before the face of his father Terah in the land of his nativity at Ur of the Chaldeans."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, a daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"And 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 together out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, and came as far as Haran, and dwelt there."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran."}],"citation":{"inline":"Genesis 11 (DBT)","markdown":"[Genesis 11](https://primebible.com/dbt/genesis/11)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/genesis/11 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}