Genesis 11 (NET)

Genesis 11:1¹The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:6Zeph 3:9Isa 19:18

Genesis 11:2²When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 1:2Gen 10:10Gen 14:1Isa 11:11Zech 5:11Gen 13:11Gen 11:9

Genesis 11:3³Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 14:10Exod 1:14Exod 2:3Heb 10:24Jas 5:12 Sam 12:31Heb 3:13Isa 41:6-7Isa 9:10Eccl 2:1

Genesis 11:4⁴Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 1:28John 5:44Luke 1:51Dan 4:30Deut 9:1Prov 10:7Ps 49:11-132 Sam 8:13Dan 4:11Gen 6:4

Genesis 11:5⁵But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 33:13-14Gen 18:21John 3:13Heb 4:13Jer 23:23-24Exod 19:11Exod 19:20Ps 11:4Exod 19:18Exod 3:8

Genesis 11:6⁶And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 2:1-4Gen 11:1Gen 3:22Eccl 11:9Luke 1:51Gen 6:5Gen 9:19Gen 8:21Acts 17:26Judg 10:14

Genesis 11:7⁷Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 33:10Gen 1:26Job 5:12-13Ps 55:91 Cor 14:2-111 Cor 14:23Acts 2:4-11Gen 42:23Deut 28:49Gen 3:22

Genesis 11:8⁸So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 1:51Gen 10:25Gen 10:32Deut 32:8Gen 11:4Gen 11:9Gen 49:7

Genesis 11:9⁹That is why its name was called Babel —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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 10:10Gen 10:5Acts 17:26Gen 10:201 Cor 14:23Gen 10:25Jer 50:1-46Gen 10:31-32Isa 13:1-14

Genesis 11:10¹⁰This is the account of Shem. Shem was 100 years old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 1:17-27Gen 10:21-22Gen 11:27Luke 3:34-36

Genesis 11:11¹¹And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 9:7Gen 1:28Gen 5:4-32Ps 127:3-4Ps 128:3-4Ps 144:12

Genesis 11:12¹²When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 3:36

Genesis 11:13¹³And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 11:14¹⁴When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 11:15¹⁵And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 11:16¹⁶When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 1:19Gen 10:21Gen 10:25Luke 3:35Num 24:24

Genesis 11:17¹⁷And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 11:18¹⁸When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 3:35

Genesis 11:19¹⁹And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 11:20²⁰When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 3:35

Genesis 11:21²¹And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 11:22²²When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 24:2

Genesis 11:23²³And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 11:24²⁴When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 3:34Josh 24:2

Genesis 11:25²⁵And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 11:26²⁶When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 24:21 Chr 1:26-27Gen 12:4-5Gen 22:20-24Gen 29:4-5

Genesis 11:27²⁷This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 11:31Gen 12:4Gen 14:122 Pet 2:7Gen 13:1-11Gen 19:1-29

Genesis 11:28²⁸Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was still alive.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 15:7Acts 7:2-4Gen 11:31Neh 9:7

Genesis 11:29²⁹And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai. And the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:15Gen 22:20Gen 20:12Gen 24:15

Genesis 11:30³⁰But Sarai was barren; she had no children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 1:2Gen 15:2-3Gen 16:1-2Gen 18:11-12Gen 21:1-2Gen 25:21Gen 29:31Gen 30:1-2Judg 13:2Luke 1:36

Genesis 11:31³¹Terah 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 9:7Acts 7:2-4Gen 12:4Gen 15:7Gen 24:10Josh 24:2-3Gen 11:32-12:1Gen 10:19Gen 27:43Gen 11:26-28

Genesis 11:32³²The lifetime of Terah was 205 years, and he died in Haran.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI