Genesis 11

Question 1

Genesis 11:1

Answer 1

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

Question 2

Genesis 11:2

Answer 2

As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

Question 3

Genesis 11:3

Answer 3

They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

Question 4

Genesis 11:4

Answer 4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

Question 5

Genesis 11:5

Answer 5

But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.

Question 6

Genesis 11:6

Answer 6

The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

Question 7

Genesis 11:7

Answer 7

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

Question 8

Genesis 11:8

Answer 8

So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

Question 9

Genesis 11:9

Answer 9

That is why it was called Babel - because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Question 10

Genesis 11:10

Answer 10

This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

Question 11

Genesis 11:11

Answer 11

And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

Question 12

Genesis 11:12

Answer 12

When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.

Question 13

Genesis 11:13

Answer 13

And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

Question 14

Genesis 11:14

Answer 14

When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.

Question 15

Genesis 11:15

Answer 15

And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

Question 16

Genesis 11:16

Answer 16

When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.

Question 17

Genesis 11:17

Answer 17

And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

Question 18

Genesis 11:18

Answer 18

When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.

Question 19

Genesis 11:19

Answer 19

And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

Question 20

Genesis 11:20

Answer 20

When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.

Question 21

Genesis 11:21

Answer 21

And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

Question 22

Genesis 11:22

Answer 22

When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.

Question 23

Genesis 11:23

Answer 23

And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

Question 24

Genesis 11:24

Answer 24

When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

Question 25

Genesis 11:25

Answer 25

And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters. 

Question 26

Genesis 11:26

Answer 26

After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. 

Question 27

Genesis 11:27

Answer 27

This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. 

Question 28

Genesis 11:28

Answer 28

While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth. 

Question 29

Genesis 11:29

Answer 29

Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

Question 30

Genesis 11:30

Answer 30

Now Sarai was barren; she had no children. 

Question 31

Genesis 11:31

Answer 31

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there. 

Question 32

Genesis 11:32

Answer 32

Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.