Listening A1: Genesis Chapter 1 - Genesis 11

All the people on earth spoke the same language.

They went east and found a flat land in Shinar, and they lived there.

They talked and said, "Let us make bricks and bake them hard."

They used bricks like stones and mud like glue.

They said, "Let us build a city and a tall tower that reaches the sky, and let us make a big name for ourselves so we do not go to many places on the earth."

God came down to see the city and the tower the people built.

God said, "Look, these people are one group with one language.

Now they start to do great things, and nothing will stop them from doing what they plan."

God said, "Let us go down and give them different languages so they cannot understand each other."

God sent them away all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.

The place was called Babel because God made their language different there, and then God sent them all over the earth.

These are the children of Shem.

Shem was 100 years old and had Arpachshad two years after the flood.

After that, Shem lived 500 years and had more sons and daughters.

Arpachshad was 35 years old when he had Shelah.

After that, Arpachshad lived 403 years and had more sons and daughters.

Shelah lived 30 years and had Eber.

After that, Shelah lived 403 years and had more sons and daughters.

Eber lived 34 years and had Peleg.

After that, Eber lived 430 years and had more sons and daughters.

Peleg lived 30 years and had Reu.

After that, Peleg lived 209 years and had more sons and daughters.

Reu lived 32 years and had Serug.

After that, Reu lived 207 years and had more sons and daughters.

Serug lived 30 years and had Nahor.

After that, Serug lived 200 years and had more sons and daughters.

Nahor lived 29 years and had Terah.

After that, Nahor lived 119 years and had more sons and daughters.

Terah lived 70 years and had Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

These are the children of Terah.

He had Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Haran had Lot.

Haran died before his father Terah in his country, Ur of the Chaldees.

Abram and Nahor married.

Abram's wife was Sarai.

Nahor's wife was Milcah.

Milcah was Haran's daughter and the sister of Iscah.

Sarai could not have a baby.

Terah took his son Abram, his son's son Lot (Haran's son), and Sarai, Abram's wife, and they left Ur of the Chaldees to go to Canaan.

They came to Haran and lived there.

Terah lived 205 years and died in Haran.