Genesis 11:10-12:9

New King James Version

Shem’s Descendants^(A)

^10 (B)This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood. ¹¹ After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹² Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, ^(C)and begot Salah. ¹³ After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁴ Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber. ¹⁵ After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

^16 (D)Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot ^(E)Peleg. ¹⁷ After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁸ Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu. ¹⁹ After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁰ Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot ^(F)Serug. ²¹ After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

²² Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. ²³ After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁴ Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot ^(G)Terah. ²⁵ After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁶ Now Terah lived seventy years, and ^(H)begot ^[a]Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Terah’s Descendants

²⁷ This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot ^(I)Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. ²⁸ And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. ²⁹ Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was ^(J)Sarai,^[b] and the name of Nahor’s wife, ^(K)Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. ³⁰ But ^(L)Sarai was barren; she had no child.

³¹ And Terah ^(M)took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from ^(N)Ur of the Chaldeans to go to ^(O)the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. ³² So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

Promises to Abram^(P)

12 Now the ^(Q)Lord had said to Abram:

⁴ So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. ⁵ Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and ^(Y)the ^[c]people whom they had acquired ^(Z)in Haran, and they ^(AA)departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. ⁶ Abram ^(AB)passed through the land to the place of Shechem, ^(AC)as far as ^[d]the terebinth tree of Moreh. ^(AD)And the Canaanites were then in the land.

^7 (AE)Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ^(AF)“To your ^[e]descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an ^(AG)altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. ⁸ And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and ^(AH)called on the name of the Lord. ⁹ So Abram journeyed, ^(AI)going on still toward the ^[f]South.