1 Kings Chapter 1 (Index)

001  And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

002  And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

003  And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

004  And they said, Go to, 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.

005  And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

006  And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

007  Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

008  So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

009  Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

010  These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

011  And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

012  And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

013  And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

014  And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

015  And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

016  And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

017  And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

018  And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

019  And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

020  And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

021  And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

022  And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

023  And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

024  And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

025  And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

026  And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

027  Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

028  And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

029  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.

030  But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

031  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.

032  And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.