¹All the land had one lip and the same words.

²As they set out from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and dwelled there.

³Each said to his neighbor, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." So the brick became stone for them, and the tar became mortar for them.

⁴They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower, with its top in the skies, and let us make a name for ourselves, so that we are not scattered over the face of all the land.”

⁵Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that the children of mankind had built.

⁶Yahweh said, “Look, one people with one language for all of them, and this is what they begin to do. And now nothing that they scheme to do will be walled off from them.”

⁷Come, let us go down and mix up their language there, so that no one will hear the language of his neighbor.

⁸Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of all the land, and they ceased to build the city.

⁹That is why its name was called Babel, for there Yahweh mixed up the language of all the land, and from there Yahweh scattered them over the face of all the land.

¹⁰These are the accounts of Shem: Shem was a son of a hundred years, and he fathered Arphaxad two years after the flood.

¹¹Shem lived after he fathered Arphaxad five hundred year, and fathered children and daughters.

¹²And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and he fathered Shelah.

¹³Arphaxad lived after he fathered Shelah three years and four hundred year, and fathered children and daughters.

¹⁴And Shelah lived thirty years, and he fathered Eber.

¹⁵Shelah lived after he fathered Eber three years and four hundred year, and fathered children and daughters.

¹⁶Eber lived thirty-four years, and he fathered Peleg.

¹⁷Eber lived after he fathered Peleg thirty year and four hundred year, and fathered children and daughters.

¹⁸Peleg lived thirty years, and he fathered Reu.

¹⁹Peleg lived after he fathered Reu nine years and two hundred year, and fathered children and daughters.

²⁰Reu lived thirty-two years, and he fathered Serug.

²¹Reu lived after he fathered Serug seven years and two hundred year, and fathered children and daughters.

²²Serug lived thirty years, and he fathered Nahor.

²³Serug lived after he fathered Nahor two hundred year, and fathered children and daughters.

²⁴Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and he fathered Terah.

²⁵Nahor lived after he fathered Terah nineteen year and hundred year, and fathered children and daughters.

²⁶Terah lived seventy years, and he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷And these are the accounts of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

²⁸Haran died before the face of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

²⁹Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves; the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.

³⁰Sarai was barren; she had no child.

³¹Terah took Abram his son, and Lot, son of Haran, his son's 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 as far as Haran and dwelled there.

³²The days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.