1And the whole earth is of one language, and of the same words,
2and it comes to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar and dwell there;
3and they each say to his neighbor, “Give help, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly”: and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen has been to them for mortar.
4And they say, “Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower with its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
5And YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;
6and YHWH says, “Behold, the people [is] one, and one language [is] to them all, and this it has dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.
7Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”
8And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
9therefore [one] has called its name Babel, for there YHWH has confused the language of all the earth, and from there YHWH has scattered them over the face of all the earth.
10These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [is] a son of one hundred years, and begets Arphaxad two years after the flood.
11And Shem lives after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
12And Arphaxad has lived thirty-five years [[ or one hundred and thirty-five years ]] , and begets Salah.
13And Arphaxad lives after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years [[ or four hundred and thirty years ]] , and begets sons and daughters.
14And Salah has lived thirty years [[ or one hundred and thirty years ]] , and begets Eber.
15And Salah lives after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years [[ or three hundred and thirty years ]] , and begets sons and daughters.
16And Eber lives thirty-four years [[ or one hundred and thirty-four years ]] , and begets Peleg.
17And Eber lives after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years [[ or three hundred and seventy years ]] , and begets sons and daughters.
18And Peleg lives thirty years [[ or one hundred and thirty years ]] , and begets Reu.
19And Peleg lives after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begets sons and daughters.
20And Reu lives thirty-two years [[ or one hundred and thirty-two years ]] , and begets Serug.
21And Reu lives after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begets sons and daughters.
22And Serug lives thirty years [[ or one hundred and thirty years ]] , and begets Nahor.
23And Serug lives after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
24And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[ or seventy-nine years ]] , and begets Terah.
25And Nahor lives after his begetting Terah one hundred and nineteen years [[ or one hundred and twenty-nine years ]] , and begets sons and daughters.
26And Terah lives seventy years, and begets Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27And these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah has begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran has begotten Lot;
28and Haran dies in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram’s wife [is] Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife [is] Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah.
30And Sarai is barren—she has no child.
31And Terah takes his son Abram, and Lot, son of Haran, his son’s son, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, wife of his son Abram, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go toward the land of Canaan; and they come to Haran, and dwell there.
32And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dies in Haran.