The Bible in Basic English
Genesis, Chapter 11

   1: And all the earth had one language and one tongue.
   2: And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.
   3: And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
   4: And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.
   5: And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
   6: And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.
   7: Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
   8: So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.
   9: So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.
   10: These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;
   11: And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
   12: And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:
   13: And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:
   14: And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:
   15: And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:
   16: And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:
   17: And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:
   18: And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:
   19: And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters:
   20: And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:
   21: And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:
   22: And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:
   23: And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
   24: And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:
   25: And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:
   26: And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
   27: These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.
   28: And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.
   29: And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: 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.
   30: And Sarai had no child.
   31: And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.
   32: And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.


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