1 A nd the whole earth was of one language and of one accent and mode of expression.

2 A nd as they journeyed eastward, they found a plain (valley) in the land of Shinar, and they settled and dwelt there.

3 A nd they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. So they had brick for stone, and slime (bitumen) for mortar.

4 A nd they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose top reaches into the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the whole earth.

5 A nd the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

6 A nd the Lord said, Behold, they are one people and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do, and now nothing they have imagined they can do will be impossible for them.

7 C ome, let Us go down and there confound (mix up, confuse) their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

8 S o the Lord scattered them abroad from that place upon the face of the whole earth, and they gave up building the city.

9 T herefore the name of it was called Babel—because there the Lord confounded the language of all the earth; and from that place the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

10 T his is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was 100 years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

11 A nd Shem lived after Arpachshad was born 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

12 W hen Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.

13 A rpachshad lived after Shelah was born 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

14 W hen Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.

15 S helah lived after Eber was born 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

16 W hen Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.

17 A nd Eber lived after Peleg was born 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

18 W hen Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.

19 A nd Peleg lived after Reu was born 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

20 W hen Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.

21 A nd Reu lived after Serug was born 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

22 W hen Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.

23 A nd Serug lived after Nahor was born 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

24 W hen Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

25 A nd Nahor lived after Terah was born 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

26 A fter Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of, Abram and Nahor and Haran,.

27 N ow this is the history of the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

28 H aran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

29 A nd Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.

30 B ut Sarai was barren; she had no child.

31 A nd Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together to go from Ur of the Chaldees into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

32 A nd Terah lived 205 years; and Terah died in Haran.