Therefore it was named [a](A)Babel, because there the Lord confused the [b]language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

Descendants of Shem

10 (B)These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood; 11 and Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arpachshad, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:9 Or Babylon; cf. Heb balal, confuse
  2. Genesis 11:9 Lit lip

Therefore its name was called Babel, for there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth, and there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

The Descendants of Shem

10 These are the generations[a] of Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old,[b] he fathered Arphaxad, two years after the flood. 11 And Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arphaxad, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:10 Or “family records”
  2. Genesis 11:10 Literally “the son of one hundred years”