Bible Verses

Category: Old Testament

  • Genesis Chapter 19 A Faithful Version

    God Rescues Lot

    Gen 19:1  And there came two angels to Sodom at evening. And Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot rose up to meet them when he saw them. And he bowed himself with his face toward the ground,

    Gen 19:2  And said, “Behold now, my lords, please turn in to your servant’s house and stay all night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise up early and go your way.” And they said, “No, but we will stay in the street.”

    Gen 19:3  But he urgently pressed upon them, and they turned in to him and entered into his house. And he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

    Gen 19:4  But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter.

    Gen 19:5  And they called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.”

    Gen 19:6  And Lot went out the door to them, and shut the door after him.

    Gen 19:7  And he said, “I pray you, brethren, do not act so wickedly!

    Gen 19:8  Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known a man. I pray you, let me bring them out to you, and you do to them as you see fit. But do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

    Gen 19:9  And they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This one came in to sojourn, and must he now play the judge? Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” And they pressed hard upon the man Lot, and came near to breaking down the door.

    Gen 19:10  But the men put out their hands and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

    Gen 19:11  And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

    Gen 19:12  And the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone here besides yourself? Bring your sons-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and anyone else you have in the city, bring them out of this place,

    Gen 19:13  For we will destroy this place, because great is the cry of it before the face of the LORD. And the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”

    Gen 19:14  And Lot went out and spoke with his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, “Get up and get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy this city.” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be jesting.

    Gen 19:15  And when the morning dawned, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Rise up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.”

    Gen 19:16  But he lingered, so the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hands of his two daughters (the LORD being merciful to him), and they brought him forth and set him outside the city.

    Gen 19:17  And it came to pass, when they brought him outside, they said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain lest you be consumed.”

    Gen 19:18  And Lot said to them, “Oh no, my Lord,

    Gen 19:19  Behold now, your servant has found grace in your sight, and you have magnified your mercy, which you have shown to me in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil overtake me and I die.

    Gen 19:20  Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my soul shall live.”

    Gen 19:21  And the angel said to him, “See, I have accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.

    Gen 19:22  Hurry and escape there! For I cannot do anything till you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

    God Destroys Sodom

    Gen 19:23  The sun had risen upon the land, and Lot entered into Zoar.

    Gen 19:24  Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire, from the LORD out of heaven.

    Gen 19:25  And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

    Gen 19:26  But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

    Gen 19:27  And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

    Gen 19:28  And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the lands of the plain, and saw, and lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

    Gen 19:29  And when God destroyed the cities of the plain, it came to pass that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

    Lot and His Daughters

    Gen 19:30  And Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he feared to live in Zoar, and he and his two daughters lived in a cave.

    Gen 19:31  And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us, as is the way of all the earth.

    Gen 19:32  Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve the seed of our father.”

    Gen 19:33  And they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. And he did not notice when she lay down nor when she arose.

    Gen 19:34  And it came to pass on the next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also, and you go in and lie down with him so that we may preserve the seed of our father.”

    Gen 19:35  And they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him. And he did not notice when she lay down nor when she arose.

    Gen 19:36  So both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

    Gen 19:37  And the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

    Gen 19:38  And the younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

  • Genesis Chapter 18 A Faithful Version

    Gen 18:1  And the LORD appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, and he sat at the tent door in the heat of the day.

    Gen 18:2  And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground.

    Gen 18:3  And he said, “My LORD, if now I have found favor in Your sight, do not pass away, I pray, from Your servant.

    Gen 18:4  Let a little water, I pray, be brought, and wash Your feet, and rest under the tree.

    Gen 18:5  And I will bring a bite of bread, and will comfort your hearts. After that You shall pass on, for this is why You have come to Your servant.” And they said, “Do so, as you have said.”

    Gen 18:6  And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal; knead it, and make cakes.”

    Gen 18:7  And Abraham ran out to the herd and brought a calf, tender and good. And he gave it to a young man. And he hurried to dress it.

    Gen 18:8  And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

    Gen 18:9  And they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “Behold, in the tent.”

    Gen 18:10  And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and lo, Sarah your wife shall have a son.” And Sarah heard at the tent door which was behind Him.

    Gen 18:11  Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in days, and it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

    Gen 18:12  Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

    Gen 18:13  And the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I, who am old, truly bear a child?’

    Gen 18:14  Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return again, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”

    Gen 18:15  Then Sarah denied, saying, “I did not laugh;” for she was afraid. And He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

    Gen 18:16  And the men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham was going with them to send them on the way.

    Gen 18:17  And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I do,

    Gen 18:18  Since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

    Gen 18:19  For I know him, that he will command his children and his house after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which He has spoken of him.”

    Gen 18:20  And the LORD said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

    Gen 18:21  I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which has come to Me. And if not, I will know.”

    Abraham Intercedes for Sodom

    Gen 18:22  And the men turned their faces away from there, and went toward Sodom. But Abraham still stood before the LORD.

    Gen 18:23  And Abraham drew near and said, “Will You also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

    Gen 18:24  Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city. Will You also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

    Gen 18:25  Far be it from You to act in this manner, to kill the righteous with the wicked. And far be it from You, that the righteous should be as the wicked. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

    Gen 18:26  And the LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”

    Gen 18:27  And Abraham answered and said, “Behold now, I have taken upon myself to speak to the LORD —I who am but dust and ashes.

    Gen 18:28  Perhaps there will be five lacking from the fifty righteous. Will You destroy all the city for lack of five?” And He said, “If I find there forty-five, I will not destroy it.”

    Gen 18:29  And he spoke to Him yet again, and said, “Perhaps there shall be forty found there.” And He said, “I will not do it for forty’s sake.”

    Gen 18:30  And he said, “Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak. Perhaps there shall be thirty found there.” And He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

    Gen 18:31  And he said, “Lo now, I have taken upon myself to speak to the LORD. Perhaps there shall be twenty found there.” And He said, “I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.”

    Gen 18:32  And he said, “Oh do not let the LORD be angry, and I will speak only once more. Perhaps only ten shall be found there.” And He said, “I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.”

    Gen 18:33  And the LORD went His way as soon as He had left off talking with Abraham. And Abraham returned to his place.

  • Genesis Chapter 17 A Faithful Version

    Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision

    Gen 17:1  And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am the Almighty God! Walk before Me and be perfect.

    Gen 17:2  And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

    Gen 17:3  And Abram fell on his face. And God talked with him, saying,

    Gen 17:4  “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

    Gen 17:5  Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.

    Gen 17:6  And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.

    Gen 17:7  And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your seed after you.

    Gen 17:8  And I will give the land to you in which you are a sojourner, and to your seed after you, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. And I will be their God.”

    Gen 17:9  And God said to Abraham, “And you shall keep My covenant, you and your seed after you in their generations.

    Gen 17:10  This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you. Every male child among you shall be circumcised.

    Gen 17:11  And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin. And it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

    Gen 17:12  And a son of eight days shall be circumcised among you, every male child in your generations; he that is born in the house, or bought with silver of any foreigner who is not of your seed.

    Gen 17:13  He that is born in your house, and he that is bought with your silver, must be circumcised. And My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

    Gen 17:14  And the uncircumcised male child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people—for he has broken My covenant.”

    Isaac’s Birth Promised

    Gen 17:15  And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah.

    Gen 17:16  And I will bless her, and give you a son also of her. Yes, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations—kings of people shall be from her.”

    Gen 17:17  And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?”

    Gen 17:18  And Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!”

    Gen 17:19  And God said, “Sarah your wife shall bear you a son indeed. And you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

    Gen 17:20  And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

    Gen 17:21  But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time in the next year.”

    Gen 17:22  And He left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

    Gen 17:23  And Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his silver—every male among the men of Abraham’s house—and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins in the same day, even as God said to him.

    Gen 17:24  And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

    Gen 17:25  And his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

    Gen 17:26  In the same day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.

    Gen 17:27  And all the men of his house that were born in the house, or bought with silver from the foreigner, were circumcised with him.

  • Genesis Chapter 16 A Faithful Version

    Sarai and Hagar

    Gen 16:1  Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, did not bear him any children. And she had a maidservant, an Egyptian, and her name was Hagar.

    Gen 16:2  And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the LORD has kept me from bearing. I pray you, go in to my maidservant. It may be that I may obtain children by her.” And Abram hearkened to the words of Sarai.

    Gen 16:3  And Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maidservant, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife (after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan).

    Gen 16:4  And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when Hagar saw that she had conceived, she looked upon her mistress with contempt.

    Gen 16:5  And Sarai said to Abram, “My wrong be upon you. I have given my maidservant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The LORD judge between me and you.”

    Gen 16:6  But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maidservant is in your hand. Do to her as it pleases you.” And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her presence.

    Gen 16:7  And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

    Gen 16:8  And he said, “Hagar, Sarai’s maidservant, where did you come from? And where will you go?” And she said, “I flee from the presence of my mistress Sarai.”

    Gen 16:9  And the angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her hands.”

    Gen 16:10  And the angel of the LORD said to her, “I will multiply your seed exceedingly, so that they shall not be numbered for multitude.”

    Gen 16:11  And the angel of the LORD said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael because the LORD has heard your affliction.

    Gen 16:12  And he will be a wild man. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. And he shall live in the presence of all his brothers.”

    Gen 16:13  And she called the name of the LORD Who had spoken to her, You are a God of Seeing! For she said, “Even here have I seen Him that sees me?”

    Gen 16:14  Therefore the well was called The Well of the Living One Seeing Me. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

    Gen 16:15  And Hagar bore Abram a son. And Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bore, Ishmael.

    Gen 16:16  And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

  • Genesis Chapter 15 A Faithful Version

    God’s Covenant with Abram

    Gen 15:1  After these things the Word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield and your exceedingly great reward.”

    Gen 15:2  And Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will You give me since I go childless, and the heir of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?”

    Gen 15:3  And Abram said, “Behold, You have given no seed to me; and lo, one born in my house is my heir.”

    Gen 15:4  And behold, the Word of the LORD came to him saying, “This man shall not be your heir; but he that shall come forth out of your own loins shall be your heir.”

    Gen 15:5  And He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens and number the stars—if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your seed be.”

    Gen 15:6  And he believed in the LORD. And He accounted it to him for righteousness.

    Gen 15:7  And He said to him, “I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”

    Gen 15:8  And he said, “Lord GOD, by what shall I know that I shall inherit it?”

    Gen 15:9  And He said to him, “Take Me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

    Gen 15:10  And he took all these to himself, and divided them in the middle, and laid each piece opposite the other; but he did not divide the birds.

    Gen 15:11  And when the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

    Gen 15:12  And it came to pass, as the sun was going down, that a deep sleep fell upon Abram. And, behold, a horror of great darkness fell upon him!

    Gen 15:13  And He said to Abram, “You must surely know that your seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, (and shall serve them and they shall afflict them) four hundred years.

    Gen 15:14  And also I will judge that nation whom they shall serve. And afterward they shall come out with great substance.

    Gen 15:15  And you shall go to your fathers in peace. You shall be buried in a good old age.

    Gen 15:16  But in the fourth generation they shall come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.”

    Gen 15:17  And it came to pass—when the sun went down and it was dark—behold, a smoking furnace and a burning lamp passed between those pieces.

    Gen 15:18  In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

    Gen 15:19  The land of the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

    Gen 15:20  And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,

    Gen 15:21  And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

  • Genesis Chapter 14 A Faithful Version

    Abram Rescues Lot

    Gen 14:1  And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations,

    Gen 14:2  That they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

    Gen 14:3  All these were joined together in the valley of Siddim, which is the Salt Sea.

    Gen 14:4  They served Chedorlaomer twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

    Gen 14:5  And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him came and struck the giants in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

    Gen 14:6  And the Horites in their Mount Seir, as far as the oak of Paran, which is by the wilderness.

    Gen 14:7  And they returned, and came to En Mishpat, which is Kadesh, and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon Tamar.

    Gen 14:8  And the king of Sodom went out, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar). And they joined battle against them in the valley of Siddim;

    Gen 14:9  With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal the king of nations, and Amraphel the king of Shinar, and Arioch the king of Ellasar, four kings against five.

    Gen 14:10  And the valley of Siddim was full of asphalt pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell into them; and those who remained alive fled to the mountains.

    Gen 14:11  And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.

    Gen 14:12  And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and all his goods, and went away.

    Gen 14:13  And there came one who had escaped. And he told Abram the Hebrew, for he lived in the plains of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. And these had a covenant with Abram.

    Gen 14:14  And when Abram heard that his kinsman was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house (three hundred and eighteen) and pursued them to Dan.

    Gen 14:15  And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants. And he struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left of Damascus.

    Gen 14:16  And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his kinsman Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

    Abram Blessed by Melchizedek

    Gen 14:17  And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s valley.

    Gen 14:18  And Melchizedek the King of Salem brought forth bread and wine. And He was the Priest of the Most High God.

    Gen 14:19  And He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth.

    Gen 14:20  And blessed be the Most High God, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” And he gave Him tithes of all.

    Gen 14:21  And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and take the goods for yourself.”

    Gen 14:22  And Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to the LORD, the Most High God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

    Gen 14:23  That I will take nothing that is yours—from a thread even to a sandal strap—lest you say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

    Gen 14:24  Nothing for me, only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre—let them take their portion.”

  • Genesis Chapter 3 A Faithful Version

    Abram and Lot Separate

    Gen 13:1  And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south of Canaan.

    Gen 13:2  And Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold.

    Gen 13:3  And he went on his journeys from the south, even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai,

    Gen 13:4  To the place of the altar which he had made there at the first. And Abram called on the name of the LORD there.

    Gen 13:5  And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

    Gen 13:6  And the land was not able to bear them, that they might live together, for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.

    Gen 13:7  And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land.

    Gen 13:8  And Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife, I pray you, between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brethren.

    Gen 13:9  Is not the whole land before you? I pray you, separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.”

    Gen 13:10  And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was all well watered—before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you come to Zoar.

    Gen 13:11  And Lot chose all the plain of Jordan for himself. And Lot journeyed east; thus, they separated themselves from one another.

    Gen 13:12  Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

    Gen 13:13  But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against the LORD, exceedingly so.

    Gen 13:14  And after Lot was separated from him, the LORD said to Abram, “Lift up your eyes now and from the place where you look northward and southward, and eastward and westward;

    Gen 13:15  For all the land which you see, I will give to you and to your seed forever.

    Gen 13:16  And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then shall your seed also be counted.

    Gen 13:17  Rise up and walk through the land, in the length of it and in the breadth of it, for I will give it to you.”

    Gen 13:18  And Abram moved his tent and came and lived in the oaks of Mamre, which is in Hebron. And he built an altar to the LORD there.

  • Genesis Chapter 11 A Faithful Version

    The Tower of Babel

    Gen 11:1  And the whole earth was of one language and one speech.

    Gen 11:2  And it came to pass, as they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar. And they settled there.

    Gen 11:3  And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

    Gen 11:4  And they said, “Come, let us build us a city and a tower, with its top reaching into the heavens. And let us establish a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered upon the face of the whole earth.”

    Gen 11:5  And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men had built.

    Gen 11:6  And the LORD said, “Behold, the people are one and they all have one language. And this is only the beginning of what they will do—now nothing which they have imagined to do will be restrained from them.

    Gen 11:7  Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they cannot understand one another’s speech.”

    Gen 11:8  So the LORD scattered them abroad from that place upon the face of all the earth. And they quit building the city.

    Gen 11:9  Therefore the name of it is called Babel, because the LORD confused the language of all the earth there. And from there the LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

    Shem’s Descendants

    Gen 11:10  These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood.

    Gen 11:11  And after he begat Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years. And he begat sons and daughters.

    Gen 11:12  And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years and begat Salah.

    Gen 11:13  And after he begat Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years. And he begat sons and daughters.

    Gen 11:14  And Salah lived thirty years and begat Eber.

    Gen 11:15  And after he begat Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years. And he begat sons and daughters.

    Gen 11:16  And Eber lived thirty-four years and begat Peleg.

    Gen 11:17  And after he begat Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years. And he begat sons and daughters.

    Gen 11:18  And Peleg lived thirty years and begat Reu.

    Gen 11:19  After he begat Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years. And he begat sons and daughters.

    Gen 11:20  And Reu lived thirty-two years and begat Serug.

    Gen 11:21  And after he begat Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years. And he begat sons and daughters.

    Gen 11:22  And Serug lived thirty years and begat Nahor.

    Gen 11:23  And after he begat Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years. And he begat sons and daughters.

    Gen 11:24  And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and begat Terah.

    Gen 11:25  And after he begat Terah, Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years. And he begat sons and daughters.

    Gen 11:26  And Terah lived seventy years and begat Abram, Nahor and Haran.

    Terah’s Descendants

    Gen 11:27  Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran begat Lot.

    Gen 11:28  And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

    Gen 11:29  And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai. And the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

    Gen 11:30  But Sarai was barren. She had no child.

    Gen 11:31  And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. And he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and lived there.

    Gen 11:32  And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. And Terah died in Haran.

  • Genesis Chapter 10 A Faithful Version

    Nations Descended from Noah

    Gen 10:1  Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.

    Gen 10:2  The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.

    Gen 10:3  And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.

    Gen 10:4  And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish and Kittim and Dodanim.

    Gen 10:5  By these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

    Gen 10:6  And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Phut and Canaan.

    Gen 10:7  And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

    Gen 10:8  And Cush begat Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

    Gen 10:9  He was a mighty hunter against the LORD. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod—the mighty hunter against the LORD.”

    Gen 10:10  And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

    Gen 10:11  Out of that land he went forth to Assyria, and he built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth Ir, and Calah,

    Gen 10:12  And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a great city.

    Gen 10:13  And Mizraim begat Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim,

    Gen 10:14  And Pathrusim and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.

    Gen 10:15  And Canaan begat Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,

    Gen 10:16  And the Jebusite and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

    Gen 10:17  And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

    Gen 10:18  And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.

    Gen 10:19  And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon (as you come to Gerar) to Gaza, as you go in towards Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim, even to Lasha.

    Gen 10:20  These were the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

    Gen 10:21  And to Shem sons were born, even him, the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.

    Gen 10:22  The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arphaxad and Lud and Aram.

    Gen 10:23  And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.

    Gen 10:24  And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

    Gen 10:25  And Eber begat two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

    Gen 10:26  And Joktan begat Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah,

    Gen 10:27  And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah,

    Gen 10:28  And Obal and Abimael and Sheba,

    Gen 10:29  And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

    Gen 10:30  And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go to Sephar, a mountain of the east.

    Gen 10:31  These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, and after their nations.

    Gen 10:32  These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations; and from these were the nations divided on the earth after the floo

  • Genesis Chapter 9 A Faithful Version

    Gen 9:1  And God blessed Noah and his sons, and He said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.

    Gen 9:2  And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon all that moves on the earth, and upon all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.

    Gen 9:3  Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you, even as the green herb I have given you all things.

    Gen 9:4  But you shall not eat of flesh with the life in it—which is its blood.

    Gen 9:5  And surely the blood of your lives will I require. At the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of man. At the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

    Gen 9:6  Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood shall be shed by man—for He made man in the image of God.

    Gen 9:7  And you, be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and increase in it.”

    Gen 9:8  And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

    Gen 9:9  “Behold I, even I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

    Gen 9:10  And with every living creature that is with you—of the birds, of the livestock, and of every animal of the earth with you—from all that go out from the ark, to every animal of the earth.

    Gen 9:11  And I will establish My covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood. Neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.”

    Gen 9:12  And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature with you, for everlasting generations:

    Gen 9:13  I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

    Gen 9:14  And it shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud.

    Gen 9:15  And I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

    Gen 9:16  And the rainbow shall be in the cloud. And I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.”

    Gen 9:17  And God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.”

    Noah’s Descendants

    Gen 9:18  And the sons of Noah that went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.

    Gen 9:19  These are the three sons of Noah, and the whole earth was overspread from them.

    Gen 9:20  And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.

    Gen 9:21  And he drank of the wine and was drunk, and he was uncovered inside his tent.

    Gen 9:22  And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

    Gen 9:23  And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders, and they went backwards and covered the nakedness of their father, and their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.

    Gen 9:24  And Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest grandson had done to him.

    Gen 9:25  And he said, “Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

    Gen 9:26  And he said, “Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

    Gen 9:27  God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; And Canaan shall be their servant.”

    Gen 9:28  And Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.

    Gen 9:29  And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.