1NOW the whole earth spoke one language and with one manner of speech. 2And it came to pass, as men journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sinar; and they settled there. 3And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them with fire. And they had bricks for stone, and slime for mortar. 4Then 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 the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which men were building. 6And the LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and they have reasoned to do this thing; and now nothing will prevent them from doing that which they have imagined to do. 7Come, let us go down, and there divide their language so that they may not understand one another's speech. 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth; and they ceased from building the city. 9Therefore they called the name of it Babel; because it was there that the LORD confounded the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them upon the face of all the earth.

10These are the descendants of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphakhashar, two years after the flood; 11And Shem lived after he begot Arphakhashar five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

12And Arphakhashar lived thirty-five years, and begot Shalah; 13And Arphakhashar lived after he begot Shalah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

14And Shalah lived thirty years, and begot Eber; 15And Shalah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

16And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg: 17And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

18And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Rau; 19And Peleg lived after he begot Rau two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

20And Rau lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug; 21And Rau lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

22And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor; 23And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

24And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah; 25And Nahor lived after he begot Terah one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

26And Terah lived seventy-five years, and begot Abram, manor, and Haran.

27Now these are the descendants of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. 28And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 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 Iscah. 30But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan: and they came as far as Haran, and they settled there. 32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.