1And all the earth had one language and one tongue.

2And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.

3And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

4And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

5And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

6And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

7Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.

8So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.

9So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

10These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;

11And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

12And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:

13And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

14And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:

15And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

16And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:

17And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:

18And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:

19And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters:

20And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:

21And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:

22And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:

23And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

24And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:

25And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:

26And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

28And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.

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

30And Sarai had no child.

31And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

32And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.