1So it came to pass that, all the earth, was of one manner of speech,—and of one stock of words. 2And it came to pass as they brake away onwards, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there. 3Then said they, each man to his friend, Come on! let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly,—So the bricks, served them for stone, and bitumen, served them for mortar, 4And they said Come on! let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower with its head in the heavens, so let us make for ourselves a name,—lest we be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth. 5 And Yahweh came down, to behold the city, and the tower,—which the sons of men had built. 6Then said Yahweh: Lo! one people and one manner of speech, have they all, this, then is what they have begun to do,—now, therefore, nothing will be withholden from them which they may plan to do. 7Come on! let us go down, and there confuse their speech,—that they may not understand, each man the speech of his friend. 8So Yahweh scattered them from thence over the face of all the earth,—and so they left off building the city. 9For this cause, was the name thereof called Babel [="Confusion"]; because there, did Yahweh confuse the speech of all the earth,—and, from thence, did Yahweh scatter them abroad, over the face of all the earth. 10 These, are the genealogies of Shem, Shem was a hundred years old when he 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 thirty-five 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 thirty-four 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 thirty-two 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 twenty-nine 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. 27 These, then are the generations of Terah, Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran,—and, Haran, begat Lot; 28and Haran died, in the presence of Terah his father,—in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29And Abram and Nahor took to themselves wives; the name of Abram’s wife, was Sarai; and, the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, daughter of Haran father of Milcah, and father of Iscah. 30And, Sarai, remained barren,—she had no child, 31And Terah took Abram his son and Lot son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son,—and came forth with them out of Ur of the Chaldees, that they might go their way towards the land of Canaan, and they came in as far as Haran and dwelt there. 32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years,—and Terah died in Haran.