1And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.

2And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

3And a man said to his neighbor, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.

4And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.

5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.

6And the Lord said, Behold, there is one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.

7Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.

8And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.

9On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.

10And these are the generations of Shem: and Shem was a hundred years old when he begot Arpachshad, the second year after the flood.

11And Shem lived, after he had begotten Arpachshad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

12And Arpachshad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.

13And Arpachshad lived after he had begotten Cainan, four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Shelah; and Cainan lived after he had begotten Shelah, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

14And Shelah lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Eber.

15And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

16And Eber lived a hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.

17And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

18And Peleg lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Reu.

19And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

20And Reu lived a hundred thirty and two years, and begot Serug.

21And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

22And Serug lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nahor.

23And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

24And Nahor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Terah.

25And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah, a hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.

26And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nahor, and Haran.

27And these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram and Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.

28And Haran died in the presence of Terah his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.

29And Abram and Nahor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sarai, and the name of the wife of Nahor, Milcah, daughter of Haran, and he was the father of Milcah, the father of Iscah.

30And Sarai was barren, and did not bear children.

31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, the son of his son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan, and they came as far as Haran, and he dwelt there.

32And all the days of Terah in the land of Haran were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.