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Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.|"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Sarai was barren. She had no child."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran."}],"citation":{"inline":"Genesis 11 (WEB)","markdown":"[Genesis 11](https://primebible.com/web/genesis/11)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/genesis/11 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}