IV. The Judgment on the Tower of Babel 10:1—11:9
Gen 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.Gen 10:2
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.Gen 10:3
And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.Gen 10:4
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.Gen 10:5
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.Gen 10:6
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.Gen 10:7
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.Gen 10:8
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.Gen 10:9
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.Gen 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.Gen 10:11
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,Gen 10:12
And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.Gen 10:13
And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,Gen 10:14
And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.Gen 10:15
And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,Gen 10:16
And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,Gen 10:17
And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,Gen 10:18
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.Gen 10:19
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.Gen 10:20
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.Gen 10:21
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.Gen 10:22
The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.Gen 10:23
And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.Gen 10:24
And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.Gen 10:25
And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.Gen 10:26
And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,Gen 10:27
And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,Gen 10:28
And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,Gen 10:29
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.Gen 10:30
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.Gen 10:31
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.Gen 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Gen 11:1
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.Gen 11:2
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.Gen 11:3
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.Gen 11:4
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.Gen 11:5
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.Gen 11:6
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.Gen 11:7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.Gen 11:8
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.Gen 11:9
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.