| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1At one time all the people of the world spoke the same language and used the same words. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2As the people migrated to the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They began saying to each other, “Let’s make bricks and harden them with fire.” (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.) |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.” |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But the LORD came down to look at the city and the tower the people were building. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6“Look!” he said. “The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.” |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8In that way, the LORD scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the LORD confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world. The Line of Descent from Shem to Abram |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10This is the account of Shem’s family. Two years after the great flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11After the birth of Arphaxad, Shem lived another 500 years and had other sons and daughters. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13After the birth of Shelah, Arphaxad lived another 403 years and had other sons and daughters. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15After the birth of Eber, Shelah lived another 403 years and had other sons and daughters. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17After the birth of Peleg, Eber lived another 430 years and had other sons and daughters. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19After the birth of Reu, Peleg lived another 209 years and had other sons and daughters. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21After the birth of Serug, Reu lived another 207 years and had other sons and daughters. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23After the birth of Nahor, Serug lived another 200 years and had other sons and daughters. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25After the birth of Terah, Nahor lived another 119 years and had other sons and daughters. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26After Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. The Family of Terah |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27This is the account of Terah’s family. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28But Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, the land of his birth, while his father, Terah, was still living. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Meanwhile, Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah. (Milcah and her sister Iscah were daughters of Nahor’s brother Haran.) |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30But Sarai was unable to become pregnant and had no children. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram’s wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran’s child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Terah lived for 205 years and died while still in Haran. |
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