[1] Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. [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. [3] Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. [4] And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” [5] But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. [6] And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. [7] Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” [8] So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. [9] Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. [10] This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood. [11] After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. [12] Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah. [13] After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. [14] Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber. [15] After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. [16] Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg. [17] After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters. [18] Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu. [19] After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters. [20] Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug. [21] After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters. [22] Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. [23] After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. [24] Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah. [25] After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters. [26] Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. [27] This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. [28] And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. [29] Then Abram and Nahor took 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. [30] But Sarai was barren; she had no child. [31] And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. [32] So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
