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Genesis 6:9-11:32
Common English Bible
Genesis 6:9-11:32
Common English Bible
9 These are Noah’s descendants. In his generation, Noah was a moral and exemplary man; he[a] walked with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 In God’s sight, the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence. 12 God saw that the earth was corrupt, because all creatures behaved corruptly on the earth.
13 God said to Noah, “The end has come for all creatures, since they have filled the earth with violence. I am now about to destroy them along with the earth, 14 so make a wooden ark.[b] Make the ark with nesting places and cover it inside and out with tar. 15 This is how you should make it: four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. 16 Make a roof[c] for the ark and complete it one foot from the top.[d] Put a door in its side. In the hold below, make the second and third decks.
17 “I am now bringing the floodwaters over the earth to destroy everything under the sky that breathes. Everything on earth is about to take its last breath. 18 But I will set up my covenant with you. You will go into the ark together with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives. 19 From all living things—from all creatures—you are to bring a pair, male and female, into the ark with you to keep them alive. 20 From each kind of bird, from each kind of livestock, and from each kind of everything that crawls on the ground—a pair from each will go in with you to stay alive. 21 Take some from every kind of food and stow it as food for you and for the animals.”
22 Noah did everything exactly as God commanded him.
7 The Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark with your whole household, because among this generation I’ve seen that you are a moral man. 2 From every clean animal, take seven pairs, a male and his mate; and from every unclean animal, take one pair, a male and his mate; 3 and from the birds in the sky as well, take seven pairs, male and female, so that their offspring will survive throughout the earth. 4 In seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will wipe off from the fertile land every living thing that I have made.”
5 Noah did everything the Lord commanded him.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters arrived on earth. 7 Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark to escape the floodwaters. 8 From the clean and unclean animals, from the birds and everything crawling on the ground, 9 two of each, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, just as God commanded Noah. 10 After seven days, the floodwaters arrived on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day—on that day all the springs of the deep sea erupted, and the windows in the skies opened. 12 It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 That same day Noah, with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s wife, and his sons’ three wives, went into the ark. 14 They and every kind of animal—every kind of livestock, every kind that crawls on the ground, every kind of bird[e]— 15 they came to Noah and entered the ark, two of every creature that breathes. 16 Male and female of every creature went in, just as God had commanded him. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.[f]
17 The flood remained on the earth for forty days. The waters rose, lifted the ark, and it rode high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and spread out over the earth. The ark floated on the surface of the waters. 19 The waters rose even higher over the earth; they covered all of the highest mountains under the sky. 20 The waters rose twenty-three feet high, covering the mountains. 21 Every creature took its last breath: the things crawling on the ground, birds, livestock, wild animals, everything swarming on the ground, and every human being. 22 Everything on dry land with life’s breath in its nostrils died. 23 God wiped away every living thing that was on the fertile land—from human beings to livestock to crawling things to birds in the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left. 24 The waters rose over the earth for one hundred fifty days.
8 God remembered Noah, all those alive, and all the animals with him in the ark. God sent a wind over the earth so that the waters receded. 2 The springs of the deep sea and the skies[g] closed up. The skies held back the rain. 3 The waters receded gradually from the earth. After one hundred fifty days, the waters decreased; 4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day, the ark came to rest on the Ararat mountains. 5 The waters decreased gradually until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the mountain peaks appeared.
6 After forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made. 7 He sent out a raven, and it flew back and forth until the waters over the entire earth had dried up. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters on all of the fertile land had subsided, 9 but the dove found no place to set its foot. It returned to him in the ark since waters still covered the entire earth. Noah stretched out his hand, took it, and brought it back into the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out from the ark again. 11 The dove came back to him in the evening, grasping a torn olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the waters were subsiding from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent out the dove, but it didn’t come back to him again. 13 In Noah’s six hundred first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters dried up from the earth. Noah removed the ark’s hatch and saw that the surface of the fertile land had dried up. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day, the earth was dry.
15 God spoke to Noah, 16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you all the animals of every kind—birds, livestock, everything crawling on the ground—so that they may populate the earth, be fertile, and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out of the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives. 19 All the animals, all the livestock,[h] all the birds, and everything crawling on the ground, came out of the ark by their families.
God’s promise for the earth
20 Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of the clean large animals and some of the clean birds, and placed entirely burned offerings on the altar. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing scent, and the Lord thought to himself, I will not curse the fertile land anymore because of human beings since the ideas of the human mind are evil from their youth. I will never again destroy every living thing as I have done.
22 As long as the earth exists,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and hot,
summer and autumn,
day and night
will not cease.
God’s covenant with all life
9 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fertile, multiply, and fill the earth. 2 All of the animals on the earth will fear you and dread you—all the birds in the skies, everything crawling on the ground, and all of the sea’s fish. They are in your power. 3 Everything that lives and moves will be your food. Just as I gave you the green grasses, I now give you everything. 4 However, you must not eat meat with its life, its blood, in it.
5 I will surely demand your blood for a human life,
from every living thing I will demand it.
From humans, from a man for his brother,
I will demand something for a human life.
6 Whoever sheds human blood,
by a human his blood will be shed;
for in the divine image
God made human beings.
7 As for you, be fertile and multiply. Populate the earth and multiply in it.” 8 God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “I am now setting up my covenant with you, with your descendants, 10 and with every living being with you—with the birds, with the large animals, and with all the animals of the earth, leaving the ark with you.[i] 11 I will set up my covenant with you so that never again will all life be cut off by floodwaters. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12 God said, “This is the symbol of the covenant that I am drawing up between me and you and every living thing with you, on behalf of every future generation. 13 I have placed my bow in the clouds; it will be the symbol of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember the covenant between me and you and every living being among all the creatures. Floodwaters will never again destroy all creatures. 16 The bow will be in the clouds, and upon seeing it I will remember the enduring covenant between God and every living being of all the earth’s creatures.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the symbol of the covenant that I have set up between me and all creatures on earth.”
Shem’s blessing and Canaan’s curse
18 Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth came out of the ark. Now Ham was Canaan’s father. 19 These were Noah’s three sons, and from them the whole earth was populated. 20 Noah, a farmer, made a new start and planted a vineyard. 21 He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and took off his clothes in his tent. 22 Ham, Canaan’s father, saw his father naked and told his two brothers who were outside. 23 Shem and Japheth took a robe, threw it over their shoulders, walked backward, and covered their naked father without looking at him because they turned away. 24 When Noah woke up from his wine, he discovered what his youngest son had done to him. 25 He said,
“Cursed be Canaan:
the lowest servant
he will be for his brothers.”
26 He also said,
“Bless the Lord,
the God of Shem;
Canaan will be his servant.
27 May God give space[j] to Japheth;
he will live in Shem’s tents,
and Canaan will be his servant.”
28 After the flood, Noah lived 350 years. 29 In all, Noah lived 950 years; then he died.
Noah’s descendants
10 These are the descendants of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, to whom children were born after the flood. 2 Japheth’s sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3 Gomer’s sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.[k] 5 From these the island-nations were divided into their own countries, each according to their languages and their clans within their nations.
6 Ham’s sons: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 7 Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah’s sons: Sheba and Dedan. 8 Cush fathered Nimrod, the first great warrior on earth. 9 The Lord saw him as a great hunter, and so it is said, “Like Nimrod, whom the Lord saw as a great hunter.” 10 The most important cities in his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar. 11 Asshur left that land and built Nineveh, Rehoboth City, Calah, 12 and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah. 13 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim,[l] from which the Philistines came.
15 Canaan fathered Sidon his oldest son, and Heth, 16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. After this the Canaanite clans were dispersed. 19 The Canaanite boundary extends from Sidon by way of Gerar to Gaza and by way of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim to Lasha. 20 These are Ham’s sons according to their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
21 Children were also born to Shem the father of all Eber’s children and Japheth’s older brother.
22 Shem’s sons: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. 23 Aram’s sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24 Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber. 25 To Eber were born two sons: The first was named Peleg,[m] because during his lifetime the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan. 26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All of these were Joktan’s sons. 30 Their settlements extended from Mesha by way of Sephar, the eastern mountains. 31 These are Shem’s sons according to their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
32 These are the clans of Noah’s sons according to their generations and their nations. From them the earth’s nations branched out after the flood.
Origin of languages and cultures
11 All people[n] on the earth had one language and the same words. 2 When they traveled east,[o] they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them hard.” They used bricks for stones and asphalt for mortar. 4 They said, “Come, let’s build for ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves so that we won’t be dispersed over all the earth.”
5 Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the humans built. 6 And the Lord said, “There is now one people and they all have one language. This is what they have begun to do, and now all that they plan to do will be possible for them. 7 Come, let’s go down and mix up their language there so they won’t understand each other’s language.” 8 Then the Lord dispersed them from there over all of the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 Therefore, it is named Babel, because there the Lord mixed up[p] the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord dispersed them over all the earth.
Shem’s descendants
10 These are Shem’s descendants.
When Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the flood. 11 After Arpachshad was born, Shem lived 500 years; he had other sons and daughters.
12 When Arpachshad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah. 13 After Shelah was born, Arpachshad lived 403 years; he had other sons and daughters.
14 When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber. 15 After Eber was born, Shelah lived 403 years; he had other sons and daughters.
16 When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg. 17 After Peleg was born, Eber lived 430 years; he had other sons and daughters.
18 When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu. 19 After Reu was born, Peleg lived 209 years; he had other sons and daughters.
20 When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug. 21 After Serug was born, Reu lived 207 years; he had other sons and daughters.
22 When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor. 23 After Nahor was born, Serug lived 200 years; he had other sons and daughters.
24 When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah. 25 After Terah was born, Nahor lived 119 years; he had other sons and daughters.
26 When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 These are Terah’s descendants. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. 28 Haran died while with his father Terah in his native land,[q] in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 Abram and Nahor both married; Abram’s wife was Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was Milcah the daughter of Haran, father of both Milcah and Iscah. 30 Sarai was unable to have children. 31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (son of Haran), and his son Abram’s wife, Sarai his daughter-in-law. They left Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan, and arriving at Haran, they settled there. 32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
Footnotes
- Genesis 6:9 Heb Noah
- Genesis 6:14 Or ark of gopher wood, an unknown species of tree
- Genesis 6:16 Or window
- Genesis 6:16 Heb uncertain
- Genesis 7:14 LXX; MT every bird, every winged thing
- Genesis 7:16 Heb lacks the door.
- Genesis 8:2 Or the windows of the skies
- Genesis 8:19 LXX; MT lacks all the livestock.
- Genesis 9:10 LXX; MT includes for all the animals of the earth.
- Genesis 9:27 Heb sounds like Japheth.
- Genesis 10:4 LXX, Sam, 1 Chron 1:7; MT Dodanim
- Genesis 10:14 Or Casluhim, from which the Philistines set out, and Caphtorim
- Genesis 10:25 Or separation
- Genesis 11:1 Heb lacks people.
- Genesis 11:2 Or from the east
- Genesis 11:9 Heb balal, wordplay on Babel
- Genesis 11:28 Or birthplace
Genesis 6:9-11:32
New International Version
Genesis 6:9-11:32
New International Version
Noah and the Flood
9 This is the account(A) of Noah and his family.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless(B) among the people of his time,(C) and he walked faithfully with God.(D) 10 Noah had three sons: Shem,(E) Ham and Japheth.(F)
11 Now the earth was corrupt(G) in God’s sight and was full of violence.(H) 12 God saw how corrupt(I) the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.(J) 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy(K) both them and the earth.(L) 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[a] wood;(M) make rooms in it and coat it with pitch(N) inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[b] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[c] high all around.[d] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters(O) on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.(P) 18 But I will establish my covenant with you,(Q) and you will enter the ark(R)—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.(S) 20 Two(T) of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind(U) of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.(V) 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.(W)
7 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family,(X) because I have found you righteous(Y) in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean(Z) animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive(AA) throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain(AB) on the earth(AC) for forty days(AD) and forty nights,(AE) and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.(AF)”
5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.(AG)
6 Noah was six hundred years old(AH) when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark(AI) to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean(AJ) animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.(AK) 10 And after the seven days(AL) the floodwaters came on the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,(AM) on the seventeenth day of the second month(AN)—on that day all the springs of the great deep(AO) burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens(AP) were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.(AQ)
13 On that very day Noah and his sons,(AR) Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.(AS) 14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind,(AT) everything with wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.(AU) 16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah.(AV) Then the Lord shut him in.
17 For forty days(AW) the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.(AX) 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.[e][f] (AY) 21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.(AZ) 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life(BA) in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth.(BB) Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.(BC)
24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.(BD)
8 But God remembered(BE) Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth,(BF) and the waters receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens(BG) had been closed, and the rain(BH) had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days(BI) the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month(BJ) the ark came to rest on the mountains(BK) of Ararat.(BL) 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 After forty days(BM) Noah opened a window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven,(BN) and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.(BO) 8 Then he sent out a dove(BP) to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.(BQ) 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
13 By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year,(BR) the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month(BS) the earth was completely dry.
15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.(BT) 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”(BU)
18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.(BV) 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord(BW) and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean(BX) birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings(BY) on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma(BZ) and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground(CA) because of humans, even though[g] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.(CB) And never again will I destroy(CC) all living creatures,(CD) as I have done.
22 “As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,(CE)
cold and heat,
summer and winter,(CF)
day and night
will never cease.”(CG)
God’s Covenant With Noah
9 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.(CH) 2 The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.(CI) 3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you.(CJ) Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.(CK)
4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.(CL) 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting.(CM) I will demand an accounting from every animal.(CN) And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.(CO)
6 “Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;(CP)
for in the image of God(CQ)
has God made mankind.
7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”(CR)
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my covenant with you(CS) and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant(CT) with you:(CU) Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.(CV)”
12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant(CW) I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:(CX) 13 I have set my rainbow(CY) in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow(CZ) appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant(DA) between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.(DB) 16 Whenever the rainbow(DC) appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant(DD) between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
17 So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant(DE) I have established between me and all life on the earth.”
The Sons of Noah
18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth.(DF) (Ham was the father of Canaan.)(DG) 19 These were the three sons of Noah,(DH) and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.(DI)
20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded[h] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine,(DJ) he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked(DK) and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.
24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,
26 He also said,
“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem!(DO)
May Canaan be the slave(DP) of Shem.
27 May God extend Japheth’s[i] territory;(DQ)
may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,(DR)
and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”
28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29 Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.(DS)
The Table of Nations
10 This is the account(DT) of Shem, Ham and Japheth,(DU) Noah’s sons,(DV) who themselves had sons after the flood.
The Japhethites(DW)
2 The sons[j] of Japheth:
Gomer,(DX) Magog,(DY) Madai, Javan,(DZ) Tubal,(EA) Meshek(EB) and Tiras.
3 The sons of Gomer:
Ashkenaz,(EC) Riphath and Togarmah.(ED)
4 The sons of Javan:
Elishah,(EE) Tarshish,(EF) the Kittites(EG) and the Rodanites.[k] 5 (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)(EH)
The Hamites(EI)
6 The sons of Ham:
Cush,(EJ) Egypt, Put(EK) and Canaan.(EL)
7 The sons of Cush:
Seba,(EM) Havilah,(EN) Sabtah, Raamah(EO) and Sabteka.
The sons of Raamah:
8 Cush was the father[l] of Nimrod,(ER) who became a mighty warrior on the earth. 9 He was a mighty(ES) hunter(ET) before the Lord; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.” 10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon,(EU) Uruk,(EV) Akkad and Kalneh,(EW) in[m] Shinar.[n](EX) 11 From that land he went to Assyria,(EY) where he built Nineveh,(EZ) Rehoboth Ir,[o] Calah 12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.
13 Egypt was the father of
the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, 14 Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines(FA) came) and Caphtorites.(FB)
15 Canaan(FC) was the father of
Sidon(FD) his firstborn,[p](FE) and of the Hittites,(FF) 16 Jebusites,(FG) Amorites,(FH) Girgashites,(FI) 17 Hivites,(FJ) Arkites, Sinites, 18 Arvadites,(FK) Zemarites and Hamathites.(FL)
Later the Canaanite(FM) clans scattered 19 and the borders of Canaan(FN) reached from Sidon(FO) toward Gerar(FP) as far as Gaza,(FQ) and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim,(FR) as far as Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
The Semites(FS)
21 Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was[q] Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.(FT)
22 The sons of Shem:
Elam,(FU) Ashur,(FV) Arphaxad,(FW) Lud and Aram.(FX)
23 The sons of Aram:
Uz,(FY) Hul, Gether and Meshek.[r]
24 Arphaxad was the father of[s] Shelah,
and Shelah the father of Eber.(FZ)
25 Two sons were born to Eber:
One was named Peleg,[t] because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
26 Joktan was the father of
Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal,(GA) Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,(GB) 29 Ophir,(GC) Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
30 The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
31 These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
32 These are the clans of Noah’s sons,(GD) according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth(GE) after the flood.
The Tower of Babel
11 Now the whole world had one language(GF) and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[u] they found a plain in Shinar[v](GG) and settled there.
3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks(GH) and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone,(GI) and tar(GJ) for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens,(GK) so that we may make a name(GL) for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered(GM) over the face of the whole earth.”(GN)
5 But the Lord came down(GO) to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language(GP) they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us(GQ) go down(GR) and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”(GS)
8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth,(GT) and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[w](GU)—because there the Lord confused the language(GV) of the whole world.(GW) From there the Lord scattered(GX) them over the face of the whole earth.
From Shem to Abram(GY)
10 This is the account(GZ) of Shem’s family line.
Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father[x] of Arphaxad.(HA) 11 And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.(HB) 13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.[y]
14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.(HC) 15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.(HD) 17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.(HE) 19 And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.(HF) 21 And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.(HG) 23 And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.(HH) 25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram,(HI) Nahor(HJ) and Haran.(HK)
Abram’s Family
27 This is the account(HL) of Terah’s family line.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor(HM) and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.(HN) 28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans,(HO) in the land of his birth. 29 Abram and Nahor(HP) both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai,(HQ) and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah;(HR) she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah. 30 Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.(HS)
31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot(HT) son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law(HU) Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans(HV) to go to Canaan.(HW) But when they came to Harran,(HX) they settled there.
32 Terah(HY) lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.
Footnotes
- Genesis 6:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
- Genesis 6:15 That is, about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 135 meters long, 23 meters wide and 14 meters high
- Genesis 6:16 That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters
- Genesis 6:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
- Genesis 7:20 That is, about 23 feet or about 6.8 meters
- Genesis 7:20 Or rose more than fifteen cubits, and the mountains were covered
- Genesis 8:21 Or humans, for
- Genesis 9:20 Or soil, was the first
- Genesis 9:27 Japheth sounds like the Hebrew for extend.
- Genesis 10:2 Sons may mean descendants or successors or nations; also in verses 3, 4, 6, 7, 20-23, 29 and 31.
- Genesis 10:4 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text and Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:7); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text Dodanites
- Genesis 10:8 Father may mean ancestor or predecessor or founder; also in verses 13, 15, 24 and 26.
- Genesis 10:10 Or Uruk and Akkad—all of them in
- Genesis 10:10 That is, Babylonia
- Genesis 10:11 Or Nineveh with its city squares
- Genesis 10:15 Or of the Sidonians, the foremost
- Genesis 10:21 Or Shem, the older brother of
- Genesis 10:23 See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:17; Hebrew Mash.
- Genesis 10:24 Hebrew; Septuagint father of Cainan, and Cainan was the father of
- Genesis 10:25 Peleg means division.
- Genesis 11:2 Or from the east; or in the east
- Genesis 11:2 That is, Babylonia
- Genesis 11:9 That is, Babylon; Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused.
- Genesis 11:10 Father may mean ancestor; also in verses 11-25.
- Genesis 11:13 Hebrew; Septuagint (see also Luke 3:35, 36 and note at Gen. 10:24) 35 years, he became the father of Cainan. 13 And after he became the father of Cainan, Arphaxad lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters, and then he died. When Cainan had lived 130 years, he became the father of Shelah. And after he became the father of Shelah, Cainan lived 330 years and had other sons and daughters
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