10:1 This is the account 1 of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons 2 were born 3 to them after the flood.
10:2 The sons of Japheth 4 were Gomer, 5 Magog, 6 Madai, 7 Javan, 8 Tubal, 9 Meshech, 10 and Tiras. 11 10:3 The sons of Gomer were 12 Askenaz, 13 Riphath, 14 and Togarmah. 15 10:4 The sons of Javan were Elishah, 16 Tarshish, 17 the Kittim, 18 and the Dodanim. 19 10:5 From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.
10:6 The sons of Ham were Cush, 20 Mizraim, 21 Put, 22 and Canaan. 23 10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba, 24 Havilah, 25 Sabtah, 26 Raamah, 27 and Sabteca. 28 The sons of Raamah were Sheba 29 and Dedan. 30
10:8 Cush was the father of 31 Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth. 10:9 He was a mighty hunter 32 before the Lord. 33 (That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”) 10:10 The primary regions 34 of his kingdom were Babel, 35 Erech, 36 Akkad, 37 and Calneh 38 in the land of Shinar. 39 10:11 From that land he went 40 to Assyria, 41 where he built Nineveh, 42 Rehoboth-Ir, 43 Calah, 44 10:12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah. 45
10:13 Mizraim 46 was the father of 47 the Ludites, 48 Anamites, 49 Lehabites, 50 Naphtuhites, 51 10:14 Pathrusites, 52 Casluhites 53 (from whom the Philistines came), 54 and Caphtorites. 55
10:15 Canaan was the father of 56 Sidon his firstborn, 57 Heth, 58 10:16 the Jebusites, 59 Amorites, 60 Girgashites, 61 10:17 Hivites, 62 Arkites, 63 Sinites, 64 10:18 Arvadites, 65 Zemarites, 66 and Hamathites. 67 Eventually the families of the Canaanites were scattered 10:19 and the borders of Canaan extended 68 from Sidon 69 all the way to 70 Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to 71 Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. 10:20 These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.
10:21 And sons were also born 72 to Shem (the older brother of Japheth), 73 the father of all the sons of Eber.
10:22 The sons of Shem were Elam, 74 Asshur, 75 Arphaxad, 76 Lud, 77 and Aram. 78 10:23 The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 79 10:24 Arphaxad was the father of 80 Shelah, 81 and Shelah was the father of Eber. 82 10:25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, 83 and his brother’s name was Joktan. 10:26 Joktan was the father of 84 Almodad, 85 Sheleph, 86 Hazarmaveth, 87 Jerah, 88 10:27 Hadoram, Uzal, 89 Diklah, 90 10:28 Obal, 91 Abimael, 92 Sheba, 93 10:29 Ophir, 94 Havilah, 95 and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan. 10:30 Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way to 96 Sephar in the eastern hills. 10:31 These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.
10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread 97 over the earth after the flood.
11:1 The whole earth 98 had a common language and a common vocabulary. 99 11:2 When the people 100 moved eastward, 101 they found a plain in Shinar 102 and settled there. 11:3 Then they said to one another, 103 “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” 104 (They had brick instead of stone and tar 105 instead of mortar.) 106 11:4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens 107 so that 108 we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise 109 we will be scattered 110 across the face of the entire earth.”
11:5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people 111 had started 112 building. 11:6 And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common language 113 they have begun to do this, then 114 nothing they plan to do will be beyond them. 115 11:7 Come, let’s go down and confuse 116 their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.” 117
11:8 So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building 118 the city. 11:9 That is why its name was called 119 Babel 120 – because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.
11:10 This is the account of Shem.
Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood. 11:11 And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other 121 sons and daughters.
11:12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah. 11:13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other 122 sons and daughters. 123
11:14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber. 11:15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other 124 sons and daughters.
11:16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg. 11:17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu. 11:19 And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug. 11:21 And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor. 11:23 And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah. 11:25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:26 When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
11:27 This is the account of Terah.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. 11:28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, 125 while his father Terah was still alive. 126 11:29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, 127 and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah; 128 she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah. 11:30 But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
11:31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there. 11:32 The lifetime 129 of Terah was 205 years, and he 130 died in Haran.
12:1 Now the Lord said 131 to Abram, 132
“Go out 133 from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household
to the land that I will show you. 134
12:2 Then I will make you 135 into a great nation, and I will bless you, 136
and I will make your name great, 137
so that you will exemplify divine blessing. 138
12:3 I will bless those who bless you, 139
but the one who treats you lightly 140 I must curse,
and all the families of the earth will bless one another 141 by your name.”
12:4 So Abram left, 142 just as the Lord had told him to do, 143 and Lot went with him. (Now 144 Abram was 75 years old 145 when he departed from Haran.) 12:5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew 146 Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired 147 in Haran, and they left for 148 the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.
12:6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree 149 of Moreh 150 at Shechem. 151 (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.) 152 12:7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants 153 I will give this land.” So Abram 154 built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
12:8 Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel 155 and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord. 156 12:9 Abram continually journeyed by stages 157 down to the Negev. 158
12:10 There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt 159 to stay for a while 160 because the famine was severe. 161 12:11 As he approached 162 Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, 163 I know that you are a beautiful woman. 164 12:12 When the Egyptians see you they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will keep you alive. 165 12:13 So tell them 166 you are my sister 167 so that it may go well 168 for me because of you and my life will be spared 169 on account of you.”
12:14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 12:15 When Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram’s wife 170 was taken 171 into the household of Pharaoh, 172 12:16 and he did treat Abram well 173 on account of her. Abram received 174 sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
12:17 But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases 175 because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 12:18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, “What is this 176 you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife? 12:19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her 177 to be my wife? 178 Here is your wife! 179 Take her and go!” 180 12:20 Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, 181 and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.