1 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 another's 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 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 But
Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 And
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.
