{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "genesis-woh", "chapter": 11 }, "data": { "n": 11, "bookSlug": "genesis-woh", "bookCode": "GEN-WOH", "refId": "", "title": "Genesis 11 — Babel and the line to Abram", "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.1.0","sourceText":"Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra (Westminster Leningrad)","sourceLicense":"Public Domain","sourceUrl":"http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml","sourceAccessedVia":"sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/Genesis.11","glossaryVersion":"2.1.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-4-7"],"reviewer":"zarazinsfuss","reviewedAt":"2026-05-21T14:30:00+00:00","status":"reviewer-approved","updated":"2026-06-07T00:00:00+00:00","i18nFanout":{"languages":["en","de","es","fr","ja","ko","ru","zh","zh-Hant","he"],"firstFanout":"2026-06-07","method":"parallel-agent-fanout-from-en"},"reviewerReport":{"reviewer":"claude-opus-4-8 acting as woh-reviewer","reviewedAt":"2026-07-18T00:00:00+00:00","scope":"Genesis 11 (Babel + Shem-to-Terah genealogy, J+P): all 19 noted verses reviewed against source-he-11.json.","reviewNote":"Verified: safa achat/devarim achadim doubled unity + 10:5 tongues seam (v1), miqedem ambiguity (v2), nilbenah l'venim wordplay + bitumen/kiln-brick archaeological accuracy (v3), migdal=ziggurat + na'aseh-shem echo of 1:26 + rosho-bashamayim stock-phrase (v4), vayered/descent inverse of ascent (v5), the four-cohortative symmetry (2 human, 2 divine) and the third divine-plural (v6-7), Bab-ilim 'gate of the gods' folk-etymology recoding (v9), Eber/Ivri (v16), Ur Kasdim/Chaldean anachronism + Woolley (v28), Sarai aqarah pivot (v30), Terah's stalled migration to Haran (v31). Lens-leakage: none in translated text (the 11:6-7 lens paragraphs are heavy but explicitly framed 'The Wheel of Heaven reading...' and confined to the apparatus; the rendered English is a plain translation).","citations":["Sarna JPS Genesis; Akkadian Bab-ilim 'gate of the gods'; Woolley, Ur excavations (1920s); BDB s.v. balal, puts, batsar"],"verdicts":[{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:1","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:2","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:3","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:4","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:5","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:6","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:7","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:8","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:9","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:10","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:16","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:19","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:26","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:27","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:28","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:29","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:30","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:31","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-11:32","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."}],"glossaryReview":[],"lens-leakage-flags":[],"editorialFixes":["Normalized literal '//' inline note separators to newline breaks in 16 notes for display consistency."]}}, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:1", "text": "The whole land was of one lip and one set of words." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:2", "text": "As they journeyed from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar, and they settled there." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:3", "text": "They said each to his neighbor, \"Come, let us make bricks, and burn them in fire.\" The brick was for them as stone, and the bitumen was for them as mortar." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:4", "text": "They said, \"Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the skies; and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered upon the face of the whole land.\"" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:5", "text": "YHWH came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of the human had built." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:6", "text": "YHWH said, \"Behold — one people and one tongue for all of them! And this is what they begin to do — and now, nothing will be withheld from them which they have schemed to do.\"" },{ "n": 7, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:7", "text": "\"Come, let us go down and confuse their tongue there, so that they may not understand each other's tongue.\"" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:8", "text": "YHWH scattered them from there upon the face of the whole land, and they ceased to build the city." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:9", "text": "Therefore its name was called Babel, because there YHWH confounded the tongue of the whole land; and from there YHWH scattered them upon the face of the whole land." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:10", "text": "These are the begettings of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old when he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the deluge." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:11", "text": "Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad five hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:12", "text": "Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and fathered Shelach." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:13", "text": "Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelach four hundred and three years, and fathered sons and daughters." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:14", "text": "Shelach lived thirty years and fathered Eber." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:15", "text": "Shelach lived after he fathered Eber four hundred and three years, and fathered sons and daughters." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:16", "text": "Eber lived thirty-four years and fathered Peleg." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:17", "text": "Eber lived after he fathered Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:18", "text": "Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Reu." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:19", "text": "Peleg lived after he fathered Reu two hundred and nine years, and fathered sons and daughters." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:20", "text": "Reu lived thirty-two years and fathered Serug." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:21", "text": "Reu lived after he fathered Serug two hundred and seven years, and fathered sons and daughters." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:22", "text": "Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nachor." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:23", "text": "Serug lived after he fathered Nachor two hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:24", "text": "Nachor lived twenty-nine years and fathered Terah." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:25", "text": "Nachor lived after he fathered Terah one hundred and nineteen years, and fathered sons and daughters." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:26", "text": "Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram, Nachor, and Haran." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:27", "text": "These are the begettings of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nachor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:28", "text": "Haran died in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Kasdim." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:29", "text": "Abram and Nachor took for themselves wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nachor's wife was Milkah, daughter of Haran, the father of Milkah and the father of Yiskah." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:30", "text": "Sarai was barren — she had no child." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:31", "text": "Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram; and they went out with them from Ur of the Kasdim to go to the land of Canaan, and they came to Haran and settled there." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "GEN-WOH-11:32", "text": "The days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/genesis-woh/chapters/11", "book": "/v1/library/books/genesis-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/genesis-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }