1And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 2And it happened, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had tar for mortar. 4And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5And Yehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. 6And Yehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withheld from them, which they purpose to do. 7Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8So Yehovah scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city. 9Therefore its name was called Babel; because Yehovah there confounded the language of all the earth: and from there Yehovah scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 10These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood: 11and Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad five hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters. 12And Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and fathered Shelah: 13and Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah four hundred and three years, and fathered sons and daughters. 14And Shelah lived thirty years, and fathered Eber: 15and Shelah lived after he fathered Eber four hundred and three years, and fathered sons and daughters. 16And Eber lived thirty-four years, and fathered Peleg: 17and Eber lived after he fathered Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters. 18And Peleg lived thirty years, and fathered Reu: 19and Peleg lived after he fathered Reu two hundred and nine years, and fathered sons and daughters. 20And Reu lived thirty-two years, and fathered Serug: 21and Reu lived after he fathered Serug two hundred and seven years, and fathered sons and daughters. 22And Serug lived thirty years, and fathered Nahor: 23and Serug lived after he fathered Nahor two hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters. 24And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and fathered Terah: 25and Nahor lived after he fathered Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and fathered sons and daughters. 26And Terah lived seventy years, and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. 28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: 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. 30And Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31And 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 to Haran, and dwelt there. 32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.