And
the whole earth was of one language, and of 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 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make
brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime
had they for morter.
4 And 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 And the LORD came down to see the city and the
tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And 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 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their
language, that they may not understand one anothers speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence
upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore 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 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was
an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and
begat Salah:
13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four
hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred
and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat
Peleg:
17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred
and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred
and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat
Serug:
21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred
and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat
Terah:
25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred
and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran.
27 Now these are the generations of Terah:
Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the
land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of
Abrams wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahors 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 Abram his son, and Lot the son of
Haran his sons son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abrams
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 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five
years: and Terah died in Haran.