Genesis: Chapter Eleven

Now everyone on earth had one language, one speech

Making it easy to preach and teach a breach

The people moved east and found a plain

Shinar its name and the people thought they would gain

They all got together and said lets make us some bricks

We’ll bake them until they are fully sick

They used brick instead of stone and for mortar tar

And they said let’s build a city with a tower that stretches far

A tower that reaches to the heavens above

We don’t want to punch with kid gloves

For ourselves we want to make us a name

We deserve all the glory, the honour and the fame

If we don’t do something right now

Then throughout all the lands we’ll be scattered and like how

The Lord came down to see the building of the city

For them he wasn’t feeling any pity

He was concerned at the unified committee

If with one language and one speech

They have already extended their reach

This I am sure is only just the start

Soon nothing will be impossible if they all do their part

So now I will go and pay them a little visit

And there I will make an assumpsit

We will confuse all their language and speech

So amongst themselves they will have a constructive breach

They will not understand each other

They will no longer act like unified brothers

So the Lord God scattered them all over the place

They stopped building the city which was a coup de grace

So that is why they called the place Babel

For the languages of the world were confused as God did enable

He spread them far and wide all over the globe

As they each looked for somewhere to call their abode

So just when you thought you’d heard the last of Shem

We look again and his descendants, and discuss them

Two years after the events of the flood did unfold

Shem was exactly100 years old

This story can be told

When in his image he had a son

His family growing one by one

Arphaxad was the name given to him

So we write this narrative with some vim

For another 500 years did Shem live

Many sons and daughters to birth he did give

Then after a grand total of 600 years in all

Like the way of all men to death he did fall

Arphaxad was 35 years old

This story can be told

When in his image he had a son

His family growing one by one

Shelah was the name given to him

So we write this narrative with some vim

For another 403 years did Arphaxad live

Many sons and daughters to birth he did give

Then after a grand total of 438 years in all

Like the way of all men to death he did fall

 Shelah was 30 years old

This story can be told

When in his image he had a son

His family growing one by one

Eber was the name given to him

So we write this narrative with some vim

For another 403 years did Shelah live

Many sons and daughters to birth he did give

Then after a grand total of 433 years in all

Like the way of all men to death he did fall

Eber was 34 years old

This story can be told

When in his image he had a son

His family growing one by one

Peleg was the name given to him

So we write this narrative with some vim

For another 430 years did Eber live

Many sons and daughters to birth he did give

Then after a grand total of 464 years in all

Like the way of all men to death he did fall

Peleg was 30 years old

This story can be told

When in his image he had a son

His family growing one by one

Reu was the name given to him

So we write this narrative with some vim

For another 209 years did Peleg live

Many sons and daughters to birth he did give

Then after a grand total of 239 years in all

Like the way of all men to death he did fall

Reu was 32 years old

This story can be told

When in his image he had a son

His family growing one by one

Serug was the name given to him

So we write this narrative with some vim

For another 207 years did Reu live

Many sons and daughters to birth he did give

Then after a grand total of 239 years in all

Like the way of all men to death he did fall

Serug was 30 years old

This story can be told

When in his image he had a son

His family growing one by one

Nahor was the name given to him

So we write this narrative with some vim

For another 200 years did Serug live

Many sons and daughters to birth he did give

Then after a grand total of 230 years in all

Like the way of all men to death he did fall

Nahor was 29 years old

This story can be told

When in his image he had a son

His family growing one by one

Terah was the name given to him

So we write this narrative with some vim

For another 119 years did Nahor live

Many sons and daughters to birth he did give

Then after a grand total of 148 years in all

Like the way of all men to death he did fall

After a period of seventy years

Terah had three sons and gave three cheers

Abram, Nahor and Haran he did name these three

That was his official decree

So now let’s take a little bit of time

To now look at Terah’s family line

Of Abrah, Nahor and Haran was Terah their dad

Haran had a son named Lot, to the family line he did add

Before Terah caused the flag to be flown at half mast

In Ur of the Chaldeans Haran did in fact breathe his last

This was not a strange place; to him it was of great worth

For this was indeed the place of his birth

Abram and Nahor both found wives

In order to really enrich their lives

Sarai was the name of Abram’s wife

Milkah was Nahor’s wife to whom he shared his life

Milkah was the sibling of Iskah, the daughter of Haran

Sarai was childless, unable to conceive she was barren

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, the son of Haran and Sarai his daughter-in-law

And together they all walked out the door

They left Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan land

But when they reached Haran they actually did stand

They remained there

For them this place was quite fair

Then after a grand total of 205 years in all

Like the way of all men to death Terah did fall

In Haran was where he died

All of this is bona fide