[1] And all the earth had one language and one tongue. [2] And it came
about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat
country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place. [3]
And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well.
And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth. [4]
And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up
as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we
may not be wanderers over the face of the earth. [5] And the Lord came down
to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building. [6]
And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language;
and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be
possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs. [7] Come, let us go down
and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to
make themselves clear to one another. [8] So the Lord God sent them away
into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town. [9] So
it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all
languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the
earth. [10] These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old
when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of
waters; [11] And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for
five hundred years, and had sons and daughters: [12] And Arpachshad was
thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah: [13] And after
the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three
years, and had sons and daughters: [14] And Shelah was thirty years old
when he became the father of Eber: [15] And after the birth of Eber, Shelah
went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and
daughters: [16] And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the
father of Peleg: [17] And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for
four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters: [18] And Peleg
was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu: [19] And after the
birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had
sons and daughters: [20] And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became
the father of Serug: [21] And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living
for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters: [22] And Serug
was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor: [23] And after the
birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons
and daughters: [24] And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the
father of Terah: [25] And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living
for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters: [26] And
Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and
Haran. [27] These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of
Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. [28] And death
came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth,
Ur of the Chaldees. [29] And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: 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] And Sarai had
no child. [31] And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran,
and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out
from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to
Haran, and were there for some time. [32] And all the years of Terah's life
were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.