1And the whole Earth was one language and one speech. 2And it was that when they picked up from the East, they found a valley in the land of Senar and they dwelt there. 3And they said each man to his neighbor: “Come, we will lay bricks and we will burn them in fire.” And they had brick for stone and they had lime for mortar. 4And they said, “Come, we will build up a city for ourselves and a tower whose top is in Heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered on the face of all the Earth.” 5And LORD JEHOVAH came down to see the city and the tower that the children of men were building. 6And LORD JEHOVAH said, “Behold, the people are one and they all have one language and thus they have conceived to do, therefore nothing would be taken from them that they have conceived to do. 7Come, let us descend and we will divide there the language so that a man will not hear his neighbor's language.” 8And LORD JEHOVAH scattered them from there on the face of all the Earth, and they stopped building the city. 9Because of this, He called its name Babel, because there LORD JEHOVAH confused the language of all the Earth, and from there LORD JEHOVAH scattered them on the face of all the Earth.

10And these are the generations of Sheem: Sheem, son of a hundred years, begot Arphakshar two years after the flood: 11And Sheem lived five hundred years after he had begotten Arphakshar, and begot sons and daughters.

12And Arphakshar lived thirty and five years and he begot Shalakh: 13And Arphakshar lived four hundred and three years after he had begotten Shalakh, and he begot sons and daughters.

14And Shalakh lived thirty years and begot Abar: 15And Shalakh lived four hundred and three years after he had begotten Abar, and begot sons and daughters.

16And Abar lived thirty and four years, and he begot Palag: 17And Abar lived four hundred and thirty years after he had begotten Palag and begot sons and daughters.

18And Palag lived thirty years and begot Arau: 19And Palag lived two hundred and nine years after he had begotten Arau and begot sons and daughters.

20And Arau lived thirty and two years and begot Serug: 21And Arau lived two hundred and seven years after he had begotten Serug and begot sons and daughters.

22And Serug lived thirty years and begot Nakhor: 23And Serug lived two hundred years after he had begotten Nakhor and begot sons and daughters.

24And Nakhor lived twenty and nine years and begot Terakh: 25And Nakhor lived a hundred nineteen years after he had begotten Terakh and begot sons and daughters.

26And Terakh lived seventy and five years and begot Abram and Nakhor and Haran.

27And these are the generations of Terakh: Terakh begot Abram and Nakhor and Haran, and Haran begot Lot. 28And Haran died in the lifetime of Terakh his father, in the land where he was begotten in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29And Abram and Nakhor took to themselves women; the name of the wife of Abram: Sarai, and the name of the wife of Nakhor: Milka, daughter of Haran, the father of Milka and father of Isca. 30And Sarai was a sterile woman and she had no sons.

31And Terakh took Abram his son and Lot, son of Haran, son of his son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan and they came unto Kharan and they dwelt there. 32And the days of Terakh were two hundred and five years and Terakh died in Kharan.