1 A nd the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

2 A nd 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 A nd they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

4 A nd 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.

5 A nd the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

6 A nd 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.

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

8 S o the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 T herefore 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.

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

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

12 A nd Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

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

14 A nd Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

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

16 A nd Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

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

18 A nd Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

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

20 A nd Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

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

22 A nd Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

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

24 A nd Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

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

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

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

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

29 A nd 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.

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

31 A nd 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.

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