building a tower

Genesis Chapter 1:28

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis Chapter 11:1

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

Genesis Chapter 11:2

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.

Genesis Chapter 11:3

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.

Genesis Chapter 11:4

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 Chapter 11:5

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Genesis Chapter 11:6

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 Chapter 11:7

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Genesis Chapter 11:8

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Genesis Chapter 11:9

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.

Genesis Chapter 11:10

These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

Genesis Chapter 11:11

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis Chapter 11:12

And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

Genesis Chapter 11:13

And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis Chapter 11:14

And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

Genesis Chapter 11:15

And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis Chapter 11:16

And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

Genesis Chapter 11:17

And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis Chapter 11:18

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

Genesis Chapter 11:19

And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis Chapter 11:20

And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

Genesis Chapter 11:21

And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis Chapter 11:22

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

Genesis Chapter 11:23

And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis Chapter 11:24

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

Genesis Chapter 11:25

And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis Chapter 11:26

And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis Chapter 11:27

Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

Genesis Chapter 11:28

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

Genesis Chapter 11:29

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 Chapter 11:30

But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Genesis Chapter 11:31

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 Chapter 11:32

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

Luke Chapter 14:28

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?