{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "genesis", "chapter": 11 }, "data": { "n": 11, "bookSlug": "genesis", "bookCode": "GEN", "refId": "", "title": "The Tower of Babel: the confusion of tongues and the scattering + the line of Shem to Abram", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "GEN-11:1", "verseRef": "Gen.11.1", "text": "And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "GEN-11:2", "verseRef": "Gen.11.2", "text": "And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "GEN-11:3", "verseRef": "Gen.11.3", "text": "And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "GEN-11:4", "verseRef": "Gen.11.4", "text": "And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "GEN-11:5", "verseRef": "Gen.11.5", "text": "And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "GEN-11:6", "verseRef": "Gen.11.6", "text": "And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "GEN-11:7", "verseRef": "Gen.11.7", "text": "Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another`s speech." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "GEN-11:8", "verseRef": "Gen.11.8", "text": "So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "GEN-11:9", "verseRef": "Gen.11.9", "text": "Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "GEN-11:10", "verseRef": "Gen.11.10", "text": "These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "GEN-11:11", "verseRef": "Gen.11.11", "text": "and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "GEN-11:12", "verseRef": "Gen.11.12", "text": "And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelah." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "GEN-11:13", "verseRef": "Gen.11.13", "text": "and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "GEN-11:14", "verseRef": "Gen.11.14", "text": "And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "GEN-11:15", "verseRef": "Gen.11.15", "text": "and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "GEN-11:16", "verseRef": "Gen.11.16", "text": "And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "GEN-11:17", "verseRef": "Gen.11.17", "text": "and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "GEN-11:18", "verseRef": "Gen.11.18", "text": "And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "GEN-11:19", "verseRef": "Gen.11.19", "text": "and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "GEN-11:20", "verseRef": "Gen.11.20", "text": "And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:" },{ "n": 21, "refId": "GEN-11:21", "verseRef": "Gen.11.21", "text": "and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "GEN-11:22", "verseRef": "Gen.11.22", "text": "And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "GEN-11:23", "verseRef": "Gen.11.23", "text": "and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "GEN-11:24", "verseRef": "Gen.11.24", "text": "And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:" },{ "n": 25, "refId": "GEN-11:25", "verseRef": "Gen.11.25", "text": "and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "GEN-11:26", "verseRef": "Gen.11.26", "text": "And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "GEN-11:27", "verseRef": "Gen.11.27", "text": "Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begat Lot." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "GEN-11:28", "verseRef": "Gen.11.28", "text": "And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "GEN-11:29", "verseRef": "Gen.11.29", "text": "And Abram and Nahor took them wives: The name of Abram`s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor`s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "GEN-11:30", "verseRef": "Gen.11.30", "text": "And Sarai was barren; She had no child." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "GEN-11:31", "verseRef": "Gen.11.31", "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 with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "GEN-11:32", "verseRef": "Gen.11.32", "text": "And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/genesis/chapters/11", "book": "/v1/library/books/genesis/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/genesis/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }