¹ And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. ² And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. ³ And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they have brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. ⁴ And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, in case we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth. ⁵ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. ⁶ And the LORD said, See, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. ⁷ Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. ⁸ So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. ⁹ Therefore is the name of it called Babel because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from there did the LORD scatter them abroad on the face of all the earth. ¹⁰ These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and bore Arphaxad two years after the flood ¹¹ And Shem lived after he bore Arphaxad five hundred years, and bore sons and daughters. ¹² And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and bore Salah ¹³ And Arphaxad lived after he bore Salah four hundred and three years, and bore sons and daughters. ¹⁴ And Salah lived thirty years, and bore Eber ¹⁵ And Salah lived after he bore Eber four hundred and three years, and bore sons and daughters. ¹⁶ And Eber lived four and thirty years, and bore Peleg ¹⁷ And Eber lived after he bore Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and bore sons and daughters. ¹⁸ And Peleg lived thirty years, and bore Reu ¹⁹ And Peleg lived after he bore Reu two hundred and nine years, and bore sons and daughters. ²⁰ And Reu lived two and thirty years, and bore Serug ²¹ And Reu lived after he bore Serug two hundred and seven years, and bore sons and daughters. ²² And Serug lived thirty years, and bore Nahor ²³ And Serug lived after he bore Nahor two hundred years, and bore sons and daughters. ²⁴ And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and bore Terah ²⁵ And Nahor lived after he bore Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and bore sons and daughters. ²⁶ And Terah lived seventy years, and bore Abram, Nahor, and Haran. ²⁷ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah bore Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran bore Lot. ²⁸ And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. ²⁹ And 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. ³⁰ But Sarai was barren she had no child. ³¹ And 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 forward with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and dwelt there. ³² And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.