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1 En ese tiempo, toda la gente hablaba un mismo idioma.

1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

2 Al salir hacia el oriente, encontraron una llanura en la región de Sinar, y se quedaron a vivir allí.

2 As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

3 Un día decidieron hacer ladrillos y cocerlos en el fuego. De ese modo usaron los ladrillos en lugar de piedras. Además, emplearon el alquitrán en lugar de mezcla.

3 They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

4 Después dijeron: «Construyamos una ciudad con una torre altísima, que toque el cielo. Así nos haremos muy famosos y no tendremos que vivir por siempre errantes».

4 They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

5 Entonces el Señor bajó para ver la ciudad y la torre que estaban edificando,

5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

6 y pensó: «Esto lo pueden hacer porque forman un solo pueblo y hablan el mismo idioma. Esa torre es sólo la primera de muchas otras obras que harán. ¡Todo lo que se propongan hacer lo harán y nadie podrá detenerlos!

6 Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

7 Vamos, descendamos y hagamos que hablen diversos idiomas, para que no puedan entenderse».

7 Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

8 Así, pues, Dios los esparció por toda la tierra, lo que impidió que terminaran la construcción de la ciudad.

8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

9 Por esta razón la ciudad se llamó Babel, porque fue allí donde Dios los confundió haciendo que hablaran diversos idiomas, y los esparció por toda la tierra.

9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

10 ◆ La siguiente es la lista de los descendientes de Sem: Dos años después del diluvio, cuando Sem cumplió los cien años, tuvo un hijo al que llamó Arfaxad.

10 This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

11 ◆ Después de que Arfaxad nació, Sem vivió quinientos años más, y tuvo más hijos e hijas.

11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

12 ◆ Arfaxad tenía treinta y cinco años cuando le nació su hijo Selaj.

12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.

13 ◆ Después de que Selaj nació, Arfaxad vivió cuatrocientos tres años más, y tuvo más hijos e hijas.

13 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

14 ◆ Selaj tenía treinta años cuando le nació su hijo Éber.

14 Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.

15 ◆ Después de que Éber nació, Selaj vivió cuatrocientos tres años más, y tuvo más hijos e hijas.

15 Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

16 ◆ Éber tenía treinta y cuatro años cuando le nació su hijo Péleg.

16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.

17 ◆ Después de que Péleg nació, Éber vivió cuatrocientos treinta años más, y tuvo más hijos e hijas.

17 Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

18 ◆ Péleg tenía treinta años cuando le nació su hijo Reú.

18 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.

19 ◆ Después de que Reú nació, Péleg vivió doscientos nueve años más, y tuvo más hijos e hijas.

19 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

20 ◆ Reú tenía treinta y dos años cuando le nació su hijo Serug.

20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.

21 ◆ Después de que Serug nació, Reú vivió doscientos siete años más, y tuvo más hijos e hijas.

21 Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

22 ◆ Serug tenía treinta años cuando le nació su hijo Najor.

22 Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.

23 ◆ Después de que Najor nació, Serug vivió doscientos años más, y tuvo más hijos e hijas.

23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

24 ◆ Najor tenía veintinueve años cuando le nació su hijo Téraj.

24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

25 ◆ Después de que Téraj nació, Najor vivió ciento diecinueve años más, y tuvo más hijos e hijas.

25 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

26 ◆ A sus setenta años, a Téraj ya le habían nacido sus hijos Abram, Najor y Jarán.

26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 La siguiente es la lista de los descendientes de Téraj, el padre de Abram, Najor y Jarán. Jarán, que fue el padre de Lot,

27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

28 murió en el mismo lugar en el que había nacido, es decir, en Ur de los caldeos. Jarán murió antes que su padre Téraj.

28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.

29 Abram se casó con Saray, y Najor se casó con Milca. Esta era hija de Jarán y hermana de Iscá.

29 Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.

30 Saray no podía tener hijos, pues era estéril.

30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.

31 Un día Téraj decidió salir de Ur de los caldeos para irse a vivir al país de Canaán. Se llevó consigo a su hijo Abram, a su nieto Lot y a su nuera Saray. Pero cuando llegaron a la ciudad de Jarán, se quedaron viviendo en ese lugar.

31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

32 Fue allí en Jarán donde murió Téraj, cuando tenía doscientos cinco años de edad.

32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.

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People

Arphaxad
Son of Shem
Born two years after the flood, a link from Shem toward Abraham.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 10:22–24; 11:10–13
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Eber
Namesake of the Hebrews
The name behind the word 'Hebrew,' father of Peleg.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 10:24–25; 11:14–17
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Haran
Father of Lot
Abraham's brother who died young in Ur, leaving his son Lot.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:26–31
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Iscah
Daughter of Haran
A daughter of Haran and the sister of Milcah, named only in the account of Terah's family.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:29
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Lot
Abraham's nephew
Abraham's nephew who chose the plain of Jordan and settled near Sodom.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11–14; 19
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Milcah
Wife of Nahor, daughter of Haran
Haran's daughter and the sister of Iscah, who became the wife of Nahor.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:29; Genesis 22:20; Genesis 22:23
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Nahor
Abraham's grandfather
The grandfather of Abraham, standing just before Terah in the line.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:22–25
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Nahor
Son of Terah, brother of Abram
Terah's son and the brother of Abram and Haran, who took Milcah, the daughter of Haran, as his wife.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:26; Genesis 11:27; Genesis 11:29
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Peleg
Son of Eber
In his days, Scripture says, the earth was divided.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 10:25; 11:16–19
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Reu
Son of Peleg
A link in the generations descending toward Abraham.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:18–21
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Serug
Son of Reu
Great-grandfather of Abraham in the line from Shem.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:20–23
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Shelah
Son of Arphaxad
A quiet link in the line from Shem to Eber and Abraham.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 10:24; 11:12–15
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Shem
Ancestor of the Hebrews
Noah's blessed son, ancestor of the Semitic peoples and of Abraham.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 9:18–10:31; 11:10–26
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Terah
Father of Abraham
He left Ur with his family and journeyed toward Canaan, settling in Haran.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:24–32
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Places

Haran
Today: Southern Turkey (Upper Mesopotamia)
A caravan city in Upper Mesopotamia and the family's waypoint between Ur and Canaan. Abraham departed from here for Canaan; Jacob later sojourned with Laban nearby.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:31; Genesis 12:4; Genesis 28:10
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Ur
Today: Southern Iraq (near the Euphrates)
Traditionally the southern Sumerian city (Tell el-Muqayyar) with its famous ziggurat, though some scholars argue for a northern Ur (location debated). Abraham set out from here.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:31; Genesis 15:7; Nehemiah 9:7
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Why does my Bible say something different?

Genesis 5 and 11: why the patriarchs’ ages differ
In the Greek Septuagint most patriarchs in Genesis 5 and 11 become fathers about 100 years later than in the Hebrew text, and Genesis 11 adds a second Cainan, whom St Luke also names (Luke 3:36). The result is a world history over a thousand years longer. The Byzantine calendar was built on the Greek numbers. No doctrine depends on either set.

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

Quotes verse 11:1–9 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVI, Chapters 3–4)
Therefore the name of it is called Confusion; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and the Lord God scattered them thence on the face of all the earth." This city, which was called Confusion, is the same as Babylon, whose wonderful construction Gentile history also notices.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Quotes verse 11:6 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVI, Chapters 5–8)
The words, "Nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do," are assuredly not meant as an affirmation, but as an interrogation, such as is used by persons threatening, as e.g., when Dido exclaims, "They will not take arms and pursue?" We are to understand the words as if it had been said, Shall nothing be restrained …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Quotes verse 11:27–29 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVI, Chapters 12–15)
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: 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." This Iscah is supposed to be the same as Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

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