Genesis 11:1-32
The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel
11:1 The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.
11:2 When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
11:3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)
11:4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”
11:5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.
11:6 And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.
11:7 Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”
11:8 So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.
11:9 That is why its name was called Babel – because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.
The Genealogy of Shem
11:10 This is the account of Shem.
Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.
11:11 And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.
11:13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.
11:15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.
11:17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.
11:19 And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.
11:21 And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.
11:23 And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.
11:25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:26 When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
The Record of Terah
11:27 This is the account of Terah.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
11:28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was still alive.
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 was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
11:30 But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
11:31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.
11:32 The lifetime of Terah was 205 years, and he died in Haran.
Genesis 3:11
3:11 And the
Lord God
said, “Who told you that you were naked?
Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
Genesis 3:14
3:14 The Lord God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all the wild beasts
and all the living creatures of the field!
On your belly you will crawl
and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:18
3:18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
but you will eat the grain of the field.
Genesis 3:23
3:23 So the
Lord God expelled him
from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.
Leviticus 19:18
19:18 You must not take vengeance or bear a grudge
against the children of your people, but you must love your neighbor as yourself.
I am the
Lord.
Matthew 22:37-39
22:37 Jesus
said to him, “‘
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
22:38 This is the first and greatest
commandment.
22:39 The second is like it: ‘
Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Mark 12:29-33
12:29 Jesus answered, “The most important is: ‘
Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
12:30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
12:31 The second is: ‘
Love your neighbor as yourself.’
There is no other commandment greater than these.”
12:32 The expert in the law said to him, “That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that
he is one, and there is no one else besides him.
12:33 And
to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and
to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Luke 10:37
10:37 The expert in religious law
said, “The one who showed mercy
to him.” So
Jesus said to him, “Go and do
the same.”
John 13:34-35
13:34 “I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
13:35 Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples – if you have love for one another.”
John 15:12
15:12 My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you.
Romans 12:9-10
Conduct in Love
12:9 Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.
12:10 Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.
Romans 13:9-10
13:9 For the commandments,
“
Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,”
(and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, “
Love your neighbor as yourself.”
13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Galatians 5:6
5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight – the only thing that matters is faith working through love.
Galatians 5:14
5:14 For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment,
namely, “
You must love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:1
Freedom of the Believer
5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.
Galatians 4:9
4:9 But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless
basic forces?
Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
Galatians 4:1
4:1 Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.
Galatians 3:8
3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time,
saying, “
All the nations will be blessed in you.”
Galatians 4:8
Heirs of Promise Are Not to Return to Law
4:8 Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.