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Genesis 11:1

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1068

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 202

    Awake!,

    1/22/1989, pp. 21-22

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1068; it-2 202; g89 1/22 21-22;

    g81 12/8 3; w78 7/15 32; sl 297; w73 525; ad 737; g71 2/22 8; w66 498; w64 55; bf 531; g63 4/22 11; ns 69; ow 8

Genesis 11:2

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w74 490; is 48; g67 10/8 6; ns 69; tf 161; w33 261; pp 87

Genesis 11:3

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 61, 337, 366

    The Watchtower,

    9/1/2013, p. 11

    7/1/2012, p. 11

    Awake!,

    12/22/1998, p. 20

  • Publications Index

    it-1 61, 337, 366; w13 9/1 11; w12 7/1 11; g98 12/22 20;

    g80 6/8 27; is 48; ns 69; tf 161

Genesis 11:4

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 147, 239, 973, 1060, 1169

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 202, 321-322, 660-661

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1998, pp. 24-25

    12/1/1991, p. 10

    “All Scripture,” p. 18

  • Publications Index

    it-1 147, 239, 973, 1060, 1169; it-2 202, 321-322, 660; w98 3/15 24-25; w91 12/1 10; si 18;

    w85 4/15 5-6; g84 1/8 6-7, 25; g76 1/8 11; w75 666; w74 41; w74 490; w72 428; ad 107, 667, 732, 809; is 48; g67 10/8 6; w64 313, 345; bf 24; w61 25; ns 69; pa 46; w53 404; nh 111; rm 87; ow 9; tf 161; w32 187

Genesis 11:5

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 853

  • Publications Index

    it-1 853;

    ad 595; w69 485; w64 313; bf 28; ns 70; g53 9/8 26; rm 89; w40 142

Genesis 11:6

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 202, 660-661

  • Publications Index

    it-2 202, 660-661;

    w75 666; w74 41; w73 516, 525; w64 313; bf 28; ns 70; w56 302; ow 9

Genesis 11:7

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 147, 853

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 202-203

    “All Scripture,” p. 8

  • Publications Index

    it-1 147, 853; it-2 202-203; si 8;

    dt 23-25; w79 8/15 19; w75 666; w74 41; w73 525; ad 107, 595; g71 2/22 8-9; w69 485; im 261; g65 7/8 28; w64 314; w63 718; bf 28; g62 5/8 8; w61 26, 551; ns 70; g57 11/22 6; w56 302; w51 215; rm 89; tf 164

Genesis 11:8

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Mankind’s Search for God, p. 68

  • Publications Index

    sh 68;

    tr 133-134; dt 23-25; w74 41; ts 27-29; w73 516; w69 260; g67 10/8 6; w64 314; g64 4/22 16; w63 718; bf 28; w61 26; ns 70; pa 47; w56 302; w53 404; rm 89; ow 9

Genesis 11:9

Footnotes

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    11:9 The name of Babylon, if it were Hebrew, would seem to mean mixing

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 234-235, 312, 610-611

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 201-203, 464, 472-473

    Awake!,

    1/22/1989, pp. 21-22

  • Publications Index

    it-1 234-235, 312, 610-611; it-2 201-203, 464, 472-473; g89 1/22 21-22;

    g84 1/8 7; g84 8/8 22-23; g82 11/22 23; dt 23-25; w79 8/15 19; gh 91; ts 27-29; w73 525; g71 2/22 8-9; w69 686; is 48; w66 217; im 51; w64 314, 345; g64 4/22 16; bf 468; ns 70; pa 47; ow 9; w43 143; tf 164

Genesis 11:10

Footnotes

  • *

    11:10-26 Ancient copies vary in the numbers

  • *

    11:10 Or Caldea

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 460, 919-920

  • Publications Index

    it-1 460, 919-920;

    ad 334; li 31; g65 6/22 27-28; ns 65-66, 70, 72; w48 202; tf 144

Genesis 11:11

Footnotes

  • *

    11:11 Or Caldea

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    g65 6/22 28; ns 66

Genesis 11:12

Footnotes

  • *

    11:12 Or Caldea

  • *

    11:12 Var. Kenan

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w66 416

Genesis 11:13

Footnotes

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    11:13 Var. Kenan and at end of verse And Kenan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Shelah; and Kenan lived three hundred and thirty years after he begot Shelah, and begot sons and daughters

Genesis 11:15

Footnotes

  • *

    11:15 Codd. four hundred and three

Genesis 11:26

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 28

    The Watchtower,

    7/15/1994, p. 30

  • Publications Index

    it-1 28; w94 7/15 30;

    w75 64; ad 22; bf 48; ns 72; w58 298; w57 671; w48 203; w43 174; tf 167

Genesis 11:27

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 919-920

  • Publications Index

    it-1 919-920;

    w72 319; g65 6/22 27-28; ns 72; w48 203

Genesis 11:28

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 148

  • Publications Index

    it-1 148;

    w80 10/1 6-7; g69 12/8 26; g67 10/8 7; ns 72; w60 521

Genesis 11:29

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    ns 72

Genesis 11:30

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    ns 72

Genesis 11:31

Footnotes

  • *

    11:31 Var. he brought them out from Ur of the Caldeans Var. they went out from Ur of the Caldeans with them

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 29, 148

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1141

    The Watchtower (Public),

    No. 3 2017, p. 14

    Imitate, p. 28

    The Watchtower,

    8/15/2006, p. 15

    8/15/2001, pp. 14-15, 16-17

  • Publications Index

    it-1 29, 148; it-2 1141; wp17.3 14; ia 28; w06 8/15 15; w01 8/15 14-17;

    ad 22; g69 12/8 26; g67 10/8 7; bf 49; ns 72; w60 521; w59 511

Genesis 11:32

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    g65 6/22 28; ns 72; w60 522; w57 671

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The Bible in Living English
Genesis 11:1-32

Genesis

11 And all the earth had the same speech and the same words. 2 And as they moved along in the East they found a river-bottom in the country of Shinear and lived there. 3 And they said to each other “Come on, let us make bricks and burn them hard,” and had bricks for stone and asphalt for mortar, 4 and said “Come on, let us build us a city and a tower with its top in the sky and make a name for ourselves, for fear we should scatter all over the earth.” 5 And Jehovah came down to see the city and tower that the sons of men had been building; 6 and Jehovah said “Here they are one people and all have the same speech, and this is what they do to begin with; now nothing that they design to do will be impossible to them. 7 Come on, let us go down and mix up their speech there, so that they shall not understand each other’s speech”; 8 and Jehovah scattered them from there all over the earth, and they left off building the city. 9* For this reason it is named Babylon, because there Jehovah mixed up the speech of all the earth, and from there Jehovah scattered them all over the earth.

10** This is Shem’s line. Shem, a hundred years old, begot Arpacshad two years after the Deluge. 11* And after Shem begot Arpacshad he lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

12** And Arpacshad lived sixty-five years and begot Shelah; 13* and after Arpacshad begot Shelah he lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

14 And Shelah lived thirty years and begot ʽEber; 15* and after Shelah begot ʽEber he lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

16 And ʽEber lived thirty-four years and begot Peleg; 17 and after ʽEber begot Peleg he lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

18 And Peleg lived thirty years and begot Reghu; 19 and after Peleg begot Reghu he lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

20 And Reghu lived thirty-two years and begot Serug; 21 and after Reghu begot Serug he lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

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

24 And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and begot Terah; 25 and after Nahor begot Terah he lived a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

26 And Terah lived seventy years and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 This is Terah’s line. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begot Lot; 28 and Haran died in his native country, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was head of the family. 29 And Abram and Nahor married: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s was Milcah, daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and of Iscah; 30 but Sarai was barren, had no child.

31* And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot the son of Haran and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and went out from Ur of the Chaldeans with them to go to the country of Canaan; and he came to Harran and stayed there. 32 And Terah lived to the age of two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Harran.

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