Genesis 11 Flashcards
Genesis 11:1
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
Genesis 11:2
As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
Genesis 11:3
They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
Genesis 11:4
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
Genesis 11:5
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
Genesis 11:6
The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
Genesis 11:8
So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
Genesis 11:9
That is why it was called Babel - because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:10
This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
Genesis 11:11
And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:12
When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.
Genesis 11:13
And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:14
When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.
Genesis 11:15
And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.