Genesis 11

¹Then the whole earth was of one language and one speache.

²And as they went from the East, they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and there they abode.

³And they said one to another, Come, let vs make bricke, and burne it in the fire. So they had bricke for stone, and slime had they in steade of morter.

⁴Also they said, Goe to, let vs builde vs a citie and a towre, whose top may reache vnto the heauen, that we may get vs a name, lest we be scattered vpon the whole earth.

⁵But the Lord came downe, to see the citie and towre, which the sonnes of men builded.

⁶And the Lord said, Beholde, the people is one, and they all haue one language, and this they begin to doe, neither can they now be stopped from whatsoeuer they haue imagined to do.

⁷Come on, let vs goe downe, and there confound their language, that euery one perceiue not anothers speache.

⁸So ye Lord scattered them from thence vpon all the earth, and they left off to build the citie.

⁹Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because the Lord did there confounde the language of all the earth: from thence then did the Lord scatter them vpon all the earth.

¹⁰These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundreth yeere olde, and begate Arpachshad two yeere after the flood.

¹¹And Shem liued, after he begate Arpachshad, fiue hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

¹²Also Arpachshad liued fiue and thirtie yeeres, and begate Shelah.