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Genesis 10

    ²The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

    ³The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

    ⁴The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

    ⁵From these the coastland peoples spread. [These are the sons of Japheth] in their lands, each with his own language, by their families within their nations.

    ⁶The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt [Mizraim], Put, and Canaan.

    ⁷The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

    ⁸Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first to be a mighty man on the earth.

    ⁹He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.

    ¹⁰The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [in Babylonia].

    ¹¹Out of the land he [Nimrod] went forth into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

    ¹²And Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; all these [suburbs combined to form] the great city.

    ¹³And Egypt [Mizraim] became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

    ¹⁴Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.

    ¹⁵Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth [the Hittites],

    ¹⁶The Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

    ¹⁷The Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

    ¹⁸The Arvadites, the Zemarites and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites spread abroad

    ¹⁹And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon as one goes to Gerar as far as Gaza, and as one goes to ^[a]Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

    ²⁰These are the sons of Ham by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

    ²¹To Shem also, the younger brother of Japheth and the ancestor of all the children of Eber [including the Hebrews], children were born.

    ²²The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

    ²³The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

    ²⁴Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.

    ²⁵To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg [division], because [the inhabitants of] the earth were divided up in his days; and his brother's name was Joktan.

    ²⁶Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

    ²⁷Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

    ²⁸Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

    ²⁹Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

    ³⁰The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha as one goes toward Sephar to the hill country of the east.

    ³¹These are Shem's descendants by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

    ³²These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, within their nations; and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.^(A)

Genesis 11

    ²And as they journeyed eastward, they found a plain (valley) in the land of Shinar, and they settled and dwelt there.

    ³And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. So they had brick for stone, and slime (bitumen) for mortar.

    ⁴And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose top reaches into the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the whole earth.

    ⁵And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

    ⁶And the Lord said, Behold, they are one people and they have ^[b]all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do, and now nothing they have imagined they can do will be impossible for them.

    ⁷Come, let Us go down and there confound (mix up, confuse) their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

    ⁸So the Lord scattered them abroad from that place upon the face of the whole earth, and they gave up building the city.

    ⁹Therefore the name of it was called Babel--because there the Lord confounded the language of all the earth; and from that place the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

    ¹⁰This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was 100 years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

    ¹¹And Shem lived after Arpachshad was born 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ¹²When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.

    ¹³Arpachshad lived after Shelah was born 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ¹⁴When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.

    ¹⁵Shelah lived after Eber was born 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ¹⁶When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.

    ¹⁷And Eber lived after Peleg was born 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ¹⁸When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.

    ¹⁹And Peleg lived after Reu was born 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ²⁰When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.

    ²¹And Reu lived after Serug was born 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ²²When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.

    ²³And Serug lived after Nahor was born 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ²⁴When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

    ²⁵And Nahor lived after Terah was born 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ²⁶After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of [at different times], ^[c]Abram and Nahor and Haran, [his firstborn].

    ²⁷Now this is the history of the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

    ²⁸Haran died before his father Terah [died] in the land of his birth, in ^[d]Ur of the Chaldees.

    ²⁹And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.

    ³⁰But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

    ³¹And Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together to go from Ur of the Chaldees into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

    ³²And Terah lived 205 years; and Terah died in Haran.

Genesis 12

    ²And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you [with abundant increase of favors] and make your name famous and distinguished, and you will be a blessing [dispensing good to others].

    ³And I will bless those who bless you [who confer prosperity or happiness upon you] and ^[e]curse him who curses or uses insolent language toward you; in you will all the families and kindred of the earth be blessed [and by you they will bless themselves].^(C)

    ⁴So Abram departed, as the Lord had directed him; and Lot [his nephew] went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

    ⁵Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the persons [servants] that they had acquired in Haran, and they went forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

    ⁶Abram passed through the land to the locality of Shechem, to the oak or terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

    ⁷Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, I will give this land to your posterity. So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, Who had appeared to him.

    ⁸From there he pulled up [his tent pegs] and departed to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

    ⁹Abram journeyed on, still going toward the South (the Negeb).

    ¹⁰Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram ^[f]went down into Egypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive (intense and grievous).

    ¹¹And when he was about to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, I know that you are beautiful to behold.

    ¹²So when the Egyptians see you, they will say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

    ¹³Say, I beg of you, that you are ^[g]my sister, so that it may go well with me for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.

    ¹⁴And when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

    ¹⁵The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house [harem].

    ¹⁶And he treated Abram well for her sake; he acquired sheep, oxen, he-donkeys, menservants, maidservants, she-donkeys, and ^[h]camels.

    ¹⁷But the Lord scourged Pharaoh and his household with serious plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

    ¹⁸And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

    ¹⁹Why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her and get away [from here]!

    ²⁰And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they brought him on his way with his wife and all that he had.

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Matthew 4

    ²And He went without food for forty days and forty nights, and later He was hungry.^(A)

    ³And the tempter came and said to Him, If You are God's Son, command these stones to be made [^[a]loaves of] bread.

    ⁴But He replied, It has been written, Man shall not live and be upheld and sustained by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.^(B)

    ⁵Then the devil took Him into the holy city and placed Him on ^[b]a turret (pinnacle, ^[c]gable) of the temple ^[d]sanctuary.^(C)

    ⁶And he said to Him, If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written, He will give His angels charge over you, and they will bear you up on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone.^(D)

    ⁷Jesus said to him, ^[e]On the other hand, it is written also, You shall not tempt, ^[f]test thoroughly, or ^[g]try exceedingly the Lord your God.^(E)

    ⁸Again, the devil took Him up on a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory (the splendor, magnificence, preeminence, and excellence) of them.

    ⁹And he said to Him, These things, all taken together, I will give You, if You will prostrate Yourself before me and do homage and worship me.

    ¹⁰Then Jesus said to him, Begone, Satan! For it has been written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him alone shall you serve.^(F)

    ¹¹Then the devil departed from Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.

    ¹²Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested and put in prison, He withdrew into Galilee.

    ¹³And leaving Nazareth, He went and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea, in the country of Zebulun and Naphtali--

    ¹⁴That what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be brought to pass:

    ¹⁵The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, in the ^[h]way to the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles [of the ^[i]peoples who are not of Israel]--^(G)

    ¹⁶The people who sat ^[j](dwelt enveloped) in darkness have seen a great Light, and for those who sat in the land and shadow of death Light has dawned.

    ¹⁷From that time Jesus began to preach, ^[k]crying out, Repent (^[l]change your mind for the better, heartily amend your ways, with abhorrence of your past sins), for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

    ¹⁸As He was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He noticed two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, throwing a dragnet into the sea, for they were fishermen.

    ¹⁹And He said to them, Come ^[m]after Me [as disciples--letting Me be your Guide], follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men!

    ²⁰At once they left their nets and ^[n]became His disciples [sided with His party and followed Him].

    ²¹And going on further from there He noticed two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets and putting them right; and He called them.

    ²²At once they left the boat and their father and ^[o]joined Jesus as disciples [sided with His party and followed Him].

    ²³And He went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news (Gospel) of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every weakness and infirmity among the people.

    ²⁴So the report of Him spread throughout all Syria, and they brought Him all who were sick, those afflicted with various diseases and torments, those under the power of demons, and epileptics, and paralyzed people, and He healed them.

    ²⁵And great crowds joined and accompanied Him about, coming from Galilee and Decapolis [the district of the ten cities east of the Sea of Galilee] and Jerusalem and Judea and from the other [the east] side of the Jordan.