Neville Goddard on Genesis 11:10-32 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 11 in context

Scripture Focus

10These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

11And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

12And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

13And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

14And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

15And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

16And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

17And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

18And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

19And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

20And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

21And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

22And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

23And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

24And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

25And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

26And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

29And 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.

30But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

31And 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.

32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

Genesis 11:10-32

Biblical Context

These verses trace the generations from Shem to Terah, culminating in Abram’s birth, Sarai’s barrenness, and the family’s move from Ur toward Haran and the land of Canaan.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider these genealogies as the inner movement of consciousness. The long ages are not records of time but signs of attention extended through stages of awareness after a flood of limitation. Arphaxad, Salah, Eber, and Peleg mark shifts of mind, each generation birthing new possibilities within you. Sarai’s barrenness points to a lack you must momentarily endure, not as final absence but as potential awaiting its call. Terah gathering Abram and Sarai to depart Ur for Canaan represents the I AM choosing a direction—the decision to leave the old story and enter the promised land of realized purpose. Abram’s birth within that family is your own birth of a higher self, and Haran’s halt signals the ending of a former pattern. In Neville’s view, the genealogy is one soul’s evolution: your faith, obedience, and willingness to move forward until the outer circumstances begin to reflect an inner certainty.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Assume you are Abram stepping from Ur; revise your life by declaring, 'I am Abram, already in Canaan,' and feel that acknowledged presence until your state shifts into the current reality.