1Now the whole earth was of one language and of one set of words.
2And it happened, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3And they said, each to his neighbor, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” So brick served them as stone, and bitumen served them as mortar.
4And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5And Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of man had built.
6And Yahweh said, “Look, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they plot to do will be withheld from them.
7Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they may not understand one another’s language.”
8So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they ceased building the city.
9Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth, and from there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
10These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old when he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood.
11And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad five hundred years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
12And Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and he fathered Shelah.
13And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah four hundred and three years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
14And Shelah lived thirty years, and he fathered Eber.
15And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber four hundred and three years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
16And Eber lived thirty-four years, and he fathered Peleg.
17And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
18And Peleg lived thirty years, and he fathered Reu.
19And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu two hundred and nine years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
20And Reu lived thirty-two years, and he fathered Serug.
21And Reu lived after he fathered Serug two hundred and seven years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
22And Serug lived thirty years, and he fathered Nahor.
23And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor two hundred years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
24And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and he fathered Terah.
25And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah one hundred and nineteen years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
26And Terah lived seventy years, and he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27And these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.
28And Haran died in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves; the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.
30And Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31Terah took Abram his son, and Lot son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and settled there.
32The days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
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