1And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech . 2And it came to pass , as they journeyed east , that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there . 3And 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 . 4And they said, Come , let us build us a city , and a tower , whose top may reach unto heaven , and let us make us a name ; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth . 5And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower , which the children of men builded . 6And Jehovah 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 . 7Come , let us go down , and there confound their language , that they may not understand one another ’s speech . 8So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city . 9Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
The Descendants of Shem
10These are the generations of Shem . Shem was a hundred years old , and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood : 11and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years , and begat sons and daughters . 12And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years , and begat Shelah : 13and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years , and begat sons and daughters . 14And Shelah lived thirty years , and begat Eber : 15and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years , and begat sons and daughters . 16And Eber lived four and thirty years , and begat Peleg : 17and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years , and begat sons and daughters . 18And Peleg lived thirty years , and begat Reu : 19and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years , and begat sons and daughters . 20And Reu lived two and thirty years , and begat Serug : 21and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years , and begat sons and daughters . 22And Serug lived thirty years , and begat Nahor : 23and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years , and begat sons and daughters . 24And Nahor lived nine and twenty years , and begat Terah : 25and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years , and begat sons and daughters . 26And Terah lived seventy years , and begat Abram, Nahor , and Haran .
The Lineage of Terah
27Now these are the generations of Terah . Terah begat Abram, Nahor , and Haran ; and Haran begat Lot . 28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity , in Ur of the Chaldees . 29And 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 . 30And Sarai was barren ; she had no child . 31And 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 . 32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years : and Terah died in Haran .