1 And the whole earth was of one language and of
one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they
found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and
burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for
mortar.
4 And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower,
with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad
upon the face of the whole earth.'
5 And HaShem came down to see the city and the tower, which
the children of men builded.
6 And HaShem 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 withholden from them, which they purpose to do. 7 Come, let
us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one
another's speech.'
8 So HaShem scattered them abroad from thence upon the face
of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because HaShem
did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did HaShem
scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred
years old, and begot Arpachshad two years after the flood.
11 And Shem lived after he begot Arpachshad five hundred
years, and begot sons and daughters.
12 And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begot
Shelah.
13 And Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred
and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
14 And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
15 And Shelah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and
three years, and begot sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg.
17 And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and
thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
19 And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine
years, and begot sons and daughters. 20 And Reu lived two and
thirty years, and begot Serug.
21 And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven
years, and begot sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
23 And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years,
and begot sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.
25 And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and
nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and
Haran.
27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram,
Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.
28 And Haran died in the presence of 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 And 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.
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and
Terah died in Haran.