1 The Tower of Babel Now the whole earth 11:1 Lit was one lip had the same language and 11:1 Or one set of words the same words.
2 And it happened as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and 11:2Lit dwelt settled there.
3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burnthemthoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and they had tar for mortar.
4 And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose topwill reachinto heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 Then Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
6 And Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have 11:6Lit one lip the same language. And this is what they have begun to do. So now nothing which they purpose to do will be 11:6Lit withheld from impossible for them.
7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their 11:7Lit lip language, so that they will not understand one another’s 11:7Lit lip language.”
8 So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
9 Therefore its name was called 11:9Or Babylon Babel, because there Yahweh confused the 11:9Lit lip language of the whole earth; and from there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.The Generations of Shem
10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was 100 years old and 11:10Lit begot, so in ch became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;
11 and Shem lived 500 years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he became the father ofothersons and daughters.
12 And Arpachshad lived 35 years and became the father of Shelah;
13 and Arpachshad lived 403 years after he became the father of Shelah, and he became the father ofothersons and daughters.
14 And Shelah lived 30 years and became the father of Eber;
15 and Shelah lived 403 years after he became the father of Eber, and he became the father ofothersons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived 34 years and became the father of Peleg;
17 and Eber lived 430 years after he became the father of Peleg, and he became the father ofothersons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived 30 years and became the father of Reu;
19 and Peleg lived 209 years after he became the father of Reu, and he became the father ofothersons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived 32 years and became the father of Serug;
21 and Reu lived 207 years after he became the father of Serug, and he became the father ofothersons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived 30 years and became the father of Nahor;
23 and Serug lived 200 years after he became the father of Nahor, and he became the father ofothersons and daughters.
24 Nahor lived 29 years and became the father of Terah;
25 and Nahor lived 119 years after he became the father of Terah, and he became the father ofothersons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived 70 years and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.The Generations of Terah
27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot.
28 And Haran died 11:28Or during the lifetime of in the presence of Terah his father in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29 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 the father of Iscah.
30 And Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out 11:31Lit with them together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and 11:31Lit dwelt settled there.
32 And the days of Terah were 205 years; and Terah died in Haran.