Genesis 11:8-10

Easy-to-Read Version

⁸ So people stopped building the city, and the Lord scattered them all over the earth. ⁹ That is the place where the Lord confused the language of the whole world. That is why it is called Babel.^[a] And it was from there that the Lord caused the people to spread out to all the other places on earth.

The History of Shem’s Family

¹⁰ This is the history of Shem’s family. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, his son Arphaxad was born.