Genesis 11
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Lutheran reading notes
In Genesis chapter 11, the story continues to develop the theme of origins of creation, humanity, covenant, and the patriarchs. Lutheran interpretation often highlights how the events reveal humanity’s need for God’s grace and the reliability of God's promises. The chapter illustrates both the reality of human weakness and the faithfulness of God who works through history.
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And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. {language: Heb. lip.} {speech: Heb. words}
Genesis 11:1 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. {from...: or, eastward}
Genesis 11:2 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. {they said...: Heb. a man said to his neighbour} {burn...: Heb. burn them to a burning}
Genesis 11:3 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top {may reach} unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:4 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Genesis 11:5 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the LORD said, Behold, the people {is} one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Genesis 11:6 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Genesis 11:7 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Genesis 11:8 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. {Babel: that is, Confusion}
Genesis 11:9 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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These {are} the generations of Shem: Shem {was} an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
Genesis 11:10 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:11 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
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And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:13 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
Genesis 11:14 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:15 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: {Peleg: Gr. Phalec}
Genesis 11:16 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:17 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
Genesis 11:18 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:19 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: {Serug: Gr. Saruch}
Genesis 11:20 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:21 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
Genesis 11:22 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:23 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: {Terah: Gr. Thara}
Genesis 11:24 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:25 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11:26 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now these {are} the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
Genesis 11:27 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
Genesis 11:28 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Genesis 11:29 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But Sarai was barren; she {had} no child.
Genesis 11:30 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Genesis 11:31 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Genesis 11:32 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.